† rangale Obs. Chiefly Sc.
Forms: 4 rengaile, 4–5 rangale, -all, 6 -ald, ringald. See also rangat2.
[ad. OF. ringaille (Wace, etc.).]
1. The ranks or main body of an army. rare—1.
| c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 116 He bad, þat non alone breke out of þe rengaile. |
2. Sc. Rabble, esp. of an army; camp-followers.
| 1375 Barbour Bruce xi. 111 Men on fut and small rangale, That ȝemyt harnas and vittale. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxxvi. 35 Ane hundreth armyd jolyly Off knychtis and sqwyeris, but rangale. 1513 Douglas æneis vi. xii. 73 Gret rout with rangald, in ledis he. |
b. The common herd (of deer).
| 1513 Douglas æneis i. iv. 57 First the ledaris thre,..Smertlie he slew, syne all the rangald persewis. |