teagle

See also: Teagle

English

Etymology

Compare tackle.

Noun

teagle (plural teagles)

1. (UK, dialect) A hoisting apparatus; an elevator, crane, or lift.

Verb

teagle (third-person singular simple present teagles, present participle teagling, simple past and past participle teagled)

1. (UK, dialect, transitive) To hoist or raise by means of a teagle.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “teagle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Legate, eaglet, gelate, legate, telega