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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | Copyright

cringle, a short piece of rope worked grommet fashion into the bolt-rope of a sail and containing a metal thimble. In the days of sail they were used to hook in the tack and sheet tackles when they had to be moved up when a sail was reefed. In the days of square-rigged ships, cringles were used on the sails for extending the leech of the sail by means of bowline bridles for extra driving power in a head wind. The word is derived from the Old English crencled, meaning circle, or circularly formed.

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cringle

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

cringle ring or eye of rope. XVII. — LG. kringel, dim. of kring circle, ring.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

cringle •draggle, gaggle, haggle, raggle-taggle, straggle, waggle •algal •angle, bangle, bespangle, dangle, entangle, fandangle, jangle, mangel, mangle, spangle, strangle, tangle, wangle, wide-angle, wrangle •triangle • quadrangle • rectangle •pentangle • right angle • gargle •bagel, finagle, Hegel, inveigle, Schlegel •beagle, eagle, illegal, legal, paralegal, regal, spread eagle, viceregal •porbeagle •giggle, higgle, jiggle, niggle, sniggle, squiggle, wiggle, wriggle •commingle, cringle, dingle, Fingal, intermingle, jingle, mingle, shingle, single, swingle, tingle •prodigal • madrigal • warrigal •surcingle • Christingle •boggle, goggle, joggle, synagogal, toggle, woggle •diphthongal, Mongol, pongal •hornswoggle •bogle, mogul, ogle •Bruegel •bugle, frugal, fugal, google •Dougal, Mughal •Portugal • conjugal •juggle, smuggle, snuggle, struggle •bungle, fungal, jungle •McGonagall • astragal •burghal, burgle, Fergal, gurgle

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