Lingel

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A shoemaker's thread rubbed with beeswax. obsolete

    "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."

  2. 2
    A little tongue or thong of leather; a lacing for belts. obsolete

    "a little hemp, which he spun into lingels"

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"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."

Etymology

French ligneul, diminutive of Latin linea (“a linen thread”).

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