Meaning of adangle | Babel Free

Definitions

Dangling.

not-comparable

Examples

“The young boy sat on the bridge fishing, his legs adangle.”

“[…] the slave that holds / John Baptist’s head a-dangle by the hair / With one hand […] and his weapon in the other, yet unwiped”

“Keepers of the watch with lanterns trimmed for the night’s burning adangle from oaken poles braced across their shoulders.”

“[…] he presented an easy target for scoffing. His sword of rank adangle oddly, his puttees immaculately wound the wrong way round, was that a whistle he had hanging?”

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