rangle

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete)To range about in an irregular manner.

   “Haue you not heard it long ago of cunning Fawkners tolde, / […] / And ſuch as knowe the luring voice of him that féedes them ſtill: / And neuer rangle farre abroade againſt the kéepers will, / Doe farre excéede the haggarde Hauke that ſtoopeth to no ſtale: / Nor forceth on the Lure awhit, but mounts with euery gale?”

   “She bath’d her blade in blood up to the hilt, / And with the ſame their bodies all ſhe mangled, / All that abode her blowes, their bloud was ſpilt, / They ſcaped beſt that here and thither ranged,^([sic]) / Or thoſe whoſe horſes overthrown at tilt, / Lay with their maſters on the earth intangled.”

   “The rangling rage that held from home Ulisses all too long, / Made chast Penelope complaine of him that did her wrong.”

noun

1. (uncountable)Stones or gravel eaten by birds of prey to improve digestion; gastroliths

   “Previously she was seen eating on 1 pigeon fledgling 2 days before swalling the rangle”