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English
Etymology
French ligneul, diminutive of Latin linea (“a linen thread”).
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Noun
lingel (plural lingels)
- (obsolete) A shoemaker's thread rubbed with beeswax.
1607 (first performance), [Francis Beaumont], The Knight of the Burning Pestle, London: [Nicholas Okes] for Walter Burre, , published 1613, →OCLC, Act V, signature K3, recto:When I was mortall, this my costiue corps / Did lap vp Figs and Raisons in the Strand, / Where sitting I espi'd a louely Dame, / Whose maister wrought with Lingell and with All, / And vnder ground he vampied many a boote.
- (obsolete) A little tongue or thong of leather; a lacing for belts.
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