different between hantle vs hangle

English

Alternative forms

• hantel, hauntle, hontle, hancle, hankle
• hantill (Scotland)

Etymology

Of obscure origin. Perhaps from Middle English *antel, *antæl, from Old English *antæl, *andtæl, equivalent to and- + tale (“number”); or more likely of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish antal, Danish antal (“a number, multitude”), Dutch aantal (“a number, a great many”), and German Anzahl (“a number, quantity, multitude”). The addition of initial h is believed to be due to influence from Middle English handfull (“handful”).

Noun

hantle (plural hantles)

1. (Scotland, northern Britain) A considerable number or quantity; a great many; a great deal.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 15:

     An Irish creature, Erbert Ellison was the name, ran the place for the trustees, he said, but if you might believe all the stories you heard he ran a hantle more silver into his own pouch than he ran into theirs.

Anagrams

• Elnath, hantel, lathen, thenal

English

Etymology

From hang +? -le.

Noun

hangle (plural hangles)

1. A hook in a chimney for hanging a pot; a hanger.
2. A form of hanger by which the scabbard of a sword was suspended, attached not necessarily to the girdle, but sometimes to two rings fastened to the cuirass at its bottom edge, one over the left hip, the other near the middle of the back.

Anagrams

• Langhe, lehnga