songle dial.
(ˈsɒŋg(ə)l)
Also 7–9 songal, -all, 9 songow, -o, -a, etc.
[Current only in the counties on the Welsh border, but app. corresponding to obs. or dial. G. sangel, sängel, dim. of OHG. sanga (MHG., MLG., and G. sange), MFlem. sange, sanghe, WFlem. zange (De Bo), in the same sense. The simpler form appears also in Devonshire and Cornwall sang, zang.]
A handful of gleaned corn. Cf. single n. 2.
| 1674 Blount Glossogr. (ed. 4), Songal, or Songle, so the poor people in Herefordshire call a handful of corn gleaned or leazed. 1700 T. Hyde Hist. Relig. Persarum 391 Spicas..in parvum Fasciculum seu Manipulum (Angl. a Songall) colligatas. 1820 Wilbraham Chesh. Gloss. 61 Songow, Songal, gleaned corn. 1850 Collins Gower Dial. in Trans. Phil. Soc. IV. 223 Songalls, gleanings: ‘to gather songall’ is to glean. |
| transf. 1889 N. & Q. 7th Ser. VIII. 363/2, I have just this last week obtained a goodly ‘songle’ of S. Staffordshire words. |