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† rangale Obs. Chiefly Sc.
Forms: 4 rengaile, 4–5 rangale, -all, 6 -ald, ringald. See also rangat2.
[ad. OF. ringaille (Wace, etc.).]
1. The ranks or main body of an army. rare—1.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 116 He bad, þat non alone breke out of þe rengaile.
2. Sc. Rabble, esp. of an army; camp-followers.
1375Barbour Bruce xi. 111 Men on fut and small rangale, That ȝemyt harnas and vittale. c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxxvi. 35 Ane hundreth armyd jolyly Off knychtis and sqwyeris, but rangale. 1513Douglas æneis vi. xii. 73 Gret rout with rangald, in ledis he.
b. The common herd (of deer).
1513Douglas æneis i. iv. 57 First the ledaris thre,..Smertlie he slew, syne all the rangald persewis. |