ringled
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]ringled
- simple past and past participle of ringlead
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]ringled
- simple past and past participle of ringle
Adjective
[edit]ringled (comparative more ringled, superlative most ringled)
- (dialectal, obsolete) Having a ringle; marked with ringles; ringed.
- 1810, George Chalmers, “Roxburghshire” (chapter II), in Caledonia; or, An account, historical and topographic, of North Britain; from the most ancient to the present times, London: Cadell, Of its civil History (section VI), page 113:
- The arms on the common seal of Jedburgh were: Azure, an unicorn tripping, argent, ringled, maned, and horned.
- 1815, Sir Egerton Brydges, “Marlow's Hero and Leander”, in Restituta: or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Revived, volume II, London: […] T. Bensley for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Second sestyad, page 165:
- For as a hot proud horse highly disdains
To have his head control'd, but breaks the reins.
Spits forth his ringled bit, and with his hoofs
Checks the submissive ground; so he that loves.
The more he is restrain'd, the worse he fares;
- 1866 July, Wm. Laer, “Flax Culture”, in The American Farmer, volume I, number 1, Baltimore, page 12:
- Then after the next shower of rain the flax seed is sown, covered by a light harrowing, and the ground rolled, for which purpose a ringled roller is preferred.