cringle
(ˈkrɪŋg(ə)l)
Also 7 creengle, 8 crengle, crencle.
[app. of LG. origin: cf. Ger. (mostly LG. and MG.) kringel, MLG. and mod.LG. also krengel, dim. of kring circle, ring. Cf. Icel. kringla disc, circle, orb. From the verbal stem kring-: see crank n.1, and cf. crinkle.]
1. Naut. A ring or eye of rope, containing a thimble, worked into the bolt-rope of a sail, for the attachment of a rope.
| 1627 Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. v. 22 Creengles are little ropes spliced into the Bolt-ropes of all sailes belonging to the maine and fore mast, to which the bolings bridles are made fast. 1762 Falconer Shipwr. ii. 330 Each earing to its cringle first they bend. 1804 A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. Pref. 15 Bunt-Lines, ropes fastened to cringles on the bottom of square sails, to draw them up to the yards. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. s.v., Cringles should be made of the strands of new bolt-rope. |
b. Also in rural use: see quot.
| 1787–95 W. Marshall Norfolk Gloss., Cringle, a with or rope for fastening a gate. Hence 1847–78 in Halliwell. |
2. = crinkle. dial.
| 1807 Vancouver Agric. Devon. (1813) 298 This plain..is generally without creeks or cringles, and forms one compact and even surface. 1877 N.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v. Crinkle, A brook in Roxby parish, the course of which is very circuitous, is called Cringlebeck [in 12–13th c. Cringelbec]. |
Hence ˈcringle v. dial.
| 1787–95 W. Marshall Norfolk Gloss., Cringle up, to fasten with a cringle. See above. |