hingle

hingle - n., (Eng. dial.) a hinge, esp. that part of the hinge attached to the door/gate that allows it to pivot on the part fixed to the doorway/post; the part by which something (such as a pot handle) hangs.


Also a poacher's snare. Goes back to Middle English as hengle, ultimately from the same Old English root that gives us hinge and hang.

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