lingel

French ligneul, diminutive of Latin linea (“a linen thread”).

• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl

lingel (plural lingels)

1. (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.

2. (obsolete) A little tongue or thong of leather; a lacing for belts.
   • 1771, [Tobias Smollett], The Expedition of Humphry Clinker […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] W. Johnston, […]; and B. Collins, […], →OCLC:

     a little hemp, which he spun into lingels

• “lingel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Gillen, Lingle, lignel, lingle