adangle

adangle

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English a-
English dangle
English adangle

    From a- + dangle.

    Adjective

    adangle (not comparable)

    1. Dangling.
      The young boy sat on the bridge fishing, his legs adangle.
      • 1855, Robert Browning, “Fra Lippo Lippi”, in Men and Women‎[1], volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 37:
        […] the slave that holds / John Baptist’s head a-dangle by the hair / With one hand […] and his weapon in the other, yet unwiped
      • 1902, Virna Sheard, A Maid of Many Moods‎[2], Toronto: Copp, Clark, Chapter, page 76:
        Keepers of the watch with lanterns trimmed for the night’s burning adangle from oaken poles braced across their shoulders.
      • 2001, Jamie O’Neill, chapter 11, in At Swim, Two Boys‎[3], London: Scribner, page 325:
        […] he presented an easy target for scoffing. His sword of rank adangle oddly, his puttees immaculately wound the wrong way round, was that a whistle he had hanging?
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