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| an·gle 1
(āng'gəl) Pronunciation Key
intr.v. an·gled, an·gling, an·gles
n. Obsolete A fishhook or fishing tackle. [Middle English anglen, from angel, fishhook, from Old English.] |
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| an·gle 2
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n.
v. an·gled, an·gling, an·gles v. tr.
v. intr. To continue along or turn at an angle or by angles: The road angles sharply to the left. The path angled through the woods. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin angulus.] |
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| An·gle
(āng'gəl) Pronunciation Key
n. A member of a Germanic people that migrated to England from southern Jutland in the 5th century A.D., founded the kingdoms of Northumbria, East Anglia, and Mercia, and together with the Jutes and Saxons formed the Anglo-Saxon peoples. [From Latin Anglī, the Angles, of Germanic origin.] |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Angles
An"gles\, n. pl. [L. Angli. See Anglican.] (Ethnol.) An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc.
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