Definitions

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  • noun One who tangles.

Etymologies

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tangle +‎ -er

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Examples

  • The tangler was a fearsome opponent, but the combined force of men, women, and magic was too much for it, and it was destroyed.

    Xone of Contention Anthony, Piers 1999

  • The tangler was a fearsome opponent, but the combined force of men, women, and magic was too much for it, and it was destroyed.

    Xone of Contention Anthony, Piers 1999

  • Dor stepped nervously into the circle normally commanded by the tangler.

    Falcon Street 2010

  • The tangler gave a vegetable keen of fear and whipped its tentacles away.

    Falcon Street 2010

  • "Grundy took a sprouted tangler seed to Amolde," Dor explahied.

    Labor Policy John Dermot Woods 2010

  • But the carpet plunged directly below the tentacles, zooming right past the bared and scowling trunk of the tangler and into the ground at its base.

    Falcon Street 2010

  • The cactus gave a little keen of apprehension, much as the tangler had when Crunch the ogre growled at it.

    Falcon Street 2010

  • "That tangler should be almost full-grown now," Irene said.

    Labor Policy John Dermot Woods 2010

  • I believe so, together with the Spoolie Queen and the Rat-tangler.

    Crepuscular? | clusterflock 2008

  • As often as not, we took Dia with us, for while Kara was old enough to help her mother with the simpler sewing, Dia was still a thread-tangler.

    Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

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