Meaning of lingel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A shoemaker's thread rubbed with beeswax.
   obsolete
2. A little tongue or thong of leather; a lacing for belts.
   obsolete

Examples

“When I was mortall, this my costiue corps / Did lap vp Figs and Raisons in the Strand, / Where sitting I espi'd a louely Dame, / Whose maister wrought with Lingell and with All, / And vnder ground he vampied many a boote.”

“a little hemp, which he spun into lingels”

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