fanglement
(ˈfæŋg(ə)lmənt)
[f. fangle v.2 + -ment.]
The action of fangling or fashioning; hence, something fashioned or made, an invention, a contrivance.
| a 1670 Hacket Abp. Williams i. §108 (1692) 97 He adventur'd to maintain Orthodox Religion against old Corruptions and new Fanglements. 1866 Blackmore Cradock Nowell xiii. (1881) 53 Round-about foreign fanglements. 1888 Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. 797 These here new-farshin vanglements 'bout farmerin' an' that. |