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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS

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Cringle

POS

Noun

HYPHEN

crin=gle

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Cringle has 1 sense

cringle(n = noun.artifact) eyelet, grommet, grummet, loop - fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines;

is a kind of fastener, fastening, fixing, holdfast

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Cringle, n. [Icel. kringla orb; akin to kring around, and to D. kring circle, and to E. cringe, crank.].

A withe for fastening a gate. [1913 Webster]
An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Cringle, n. Naut. an eye of rope containing a thimble for another rope to pass through.

Etymology

LG kringel dimin. of kring ring f. root of CRANK(1)

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THESAURUS

Cringle

air hole, armhole, blowhole, boltrope, bullet-hole, bunghole, canvas, clew, cloth, crowd of sail, deadeye, earing, eye, eyelet, foot, fore-and-aft sail, gasket, grommet, guide, head, keyhole, knothole, leech, loop, loophole, luff, manhole, mousehole, muslin, peephole, pigeonhole, pinhole, placket, placket hole, plain sail, porthole, press of sail, punch-hole, rag, reduced sail, reef point, reefed sail, sail, spiracle, square sail, tap, vent, venthole