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Webster 1913 Edition


Cingle

Cin′gle

,
Noun.
[L.
cingula
,
cingulum
, fr.
cingere
to gird.]
A girth.
[R.]
See
Surcingle
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cingle

CINGLE

,
Noun.
A girth; but the word is little used. [See Surcingle.]

Definition 2024


cingle

cingle

See also: cinglé

English

Noun

cingle (plural cingles)

  1. A kind of belt or other girdle.
    • 1990, Guy Davenport, The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers:
      A triangle of arcs, her slip, flag red, and her friend with a swimmer’s back and saucery hollows in his solidly boxed buttocks was cupped into a gauze pouch and cingle.

French

Verb

cingle

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cingler
  2. third-person singular present indicative of cingler
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cingler
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of cingler
  5. second-person singular imperative of cingler

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