Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The same as shingles, a disease of the skin.

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  • noun Plural form of gingle.

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Examples

  • Nearly every bobbin was ended with a bunch of coloured beads strung on wire, and a collection of these bobbins, with their "gingles," often yields up a pretty and quaint necklace.

    Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Emily Leigh Lowes

  • "gingles," or a bunch of coloured beads attached to one end.

    Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Emily Leigh Lowes

  • If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them, with trifles and gingles, but use them justly and graciously, with sufficient guard nevertheless; and do not win their favor, by helping them to invade their enemies, but for their defence it is not amiss; and send oft of them, over to the country that plants, that they may see a better condition than their own, and commend it when they return.

    The Essays 2007

  • Give me, with your favour, leave to say, 'twas you first lost the good grace of speaking; for with light idle gingles of words to make sport ye have brought it to this, That the substance of oratory is become effeminate and sunk.

    The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them with trifles and gingles, but use them justly and graciously, with sufficient guard nevertheless; and do not win their favor by helping them to invade their enemies, but for their defence it is not amiss; and send oft of them over to the country that plants, that they may see a better condition than their own, and commend it when they return.

    XXXIII. Of Plantations 1909

  • Mail-coaches and chaises were the only vehicles then in requisition, with the exception of the awkward gingles, buggies, and other gear of that nondescript class which were peculiar to the times, and principally confined to the metropolis.

    The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831

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