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Definition of Lingel
1. n. A shoemaker's thread.
Definition of Lingel
1. Noun. (obsolete) A shoemaker's thread. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) A little tongue or thong of leather; a lacing for belts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lingel
1. a shoemaker's waxed thread [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lingel
Literary usage of Lingel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Painting: German, Fleming, and Dutch Schools by Sir Joseph Archer Crowe, Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Franz Kugler (1898)
"The figures in his pictures are chiefly by lingel- bach. His works are rare.
I know one of his distant views, in the Amsterdam Gallery, No. ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1880)
"lingel-TAIL'D, adj. A term applied to a woman whose clothes hang awkwardly, from
the smallness of her shape below, S. LINGER, *. Prob., the furniture of a ..."
3. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"Shoemaker's thread, SV lingel. 2. A lash or taw to a whip, Fife. 3. ... Add to
etymon ; This corresponds nearly with the Isl. term mentioned under lingel. ..."
4. Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"INKLE, a kind of tape or shoemaker's thread, stands for ¡ingle or lingel, ...
lingel in the first of the following passages Nares notes is yugal in the ..."
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