hingle

[prettygoodword]

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.

---L.

Comments

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Seems likely related to some uses of ingle (nook, angle), and possibly ankle/angle. Hmmm. No time to dig into IE today.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

OED mentions the ingle connection, in a way that suggested it's a separate word with the same spelling.

---L.