gangrel

American  

[gang-gruhl, -ruhl] / ˈgæŋ grəl, -rəl /

noun

British Dialect.

1. a lanky, loose-jointed person.

2. a wandering beggar; vagabond; vagrant.

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gangrel British  

/ ˈɡæŋrəl, ˈɡæŋɡrəl /

noun

1. a wandering beggar

2. a child just able to walk; toddler

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Etymology

Origin of gangrel

1300–50; Middle English; See gang ¹, -rel; cf. gangling

Example Sentences

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gangrel

"I'm a chief's man noo, and I'll harbour nae gangrel loons on the lands o' Kennedy."

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Now those gangrel women whom they had put across the Fleet came to Bergthorsknoll, and Bergthora asked whence they came, but they answered, "Away east under Eyjafell".

From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by Dasent, George Webbe

Neither Hogg nor Scott, I think, was crafty enough to imitate the prosaic drawl of the printed broadside ballad, or the feeble interpolations with which the "gangrel scrape-gut," or bankelsanger, supplied gaps in his memory.

From Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Lang, Andrew

These men we took at first for mere gangrel felons and outcasts from their own folk: though there were some who spoke against that from the beginning.

From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by Morris, William

But tell me, good Gerard, how it is that thou art so willing to leave kith and kin to follow a gangrel wife along the ways? 

From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by Morris, William