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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1520-1535, 1638
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Tangle, v. [ME and e.m.E. tangil (Rolle), tangle (1526).] a. tr. To involve, entangle (a person) with (a state of affairs). b. intr. To be or become tangled, confusedly interwoven. —a. c1520-c1535 Nisbet I 2.
The unseli man, being tanglit with syn, deith and hell —b. 1638 Bk. Pasquils 56.
With knaping, traping, strapping strings, Buttons, boulace, ribands and ringes, Poynts tangling heir, poynts tangling ther
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