cringle

• crengle, crenkle

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cringle (plural cringles)

1. (nautical) A short piece of rope, arranged as a grommet around a metal ring, used to attach tackle to a sail etc.
   • 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:

     "Lower till that rope-loop […] till the cringle was down on the boom. Then I'd tie her up the way you said, and then I'd hoist up the peak and throat halyards again."

2. A withe for fastening a gate.^[1]

cringle (third-person singular simple present cringles, present participle cringling, simple past and past participle cringled)

1. (nautical, transitive) To fasten or attach with a cringle.

• cringle-crangle

• Clinger, clinger