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Hantle vs Hangle - What's the difference?

hantle | hangle |

As nouns the difference between hantle and hangle

is that hantle is a considerable number or quantity; a great many; a great deal while hangle is a hook in a chimney for hanging a pot; a hanger.

hantle

English

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) * (l) (Scotland)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • hangle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hook in a chimney for hanging a pot; a hanger.
  • 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.