the verb-stem used attrib. in wringle-gut, -straw dial., † -tail: (see quots.).
1658. Rowland, trans. Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 937. There is another Fly … which Pennius cals Curvicaudem [= curved tail], very well in English a Wringle-tail, in regard that … he bends his tail towards him with his sting started.
1691. Ray, N. Co. Words (ed. 2), 84. Wringle-streas, or Straws,… Windle-Straws.
1777. in Eng. Dial. Dict., s.v., Wringle-gut, one who frets his guts to fiddle-strings by twisting and turning his body.
1877. Holderness Gloss., 160. Wringlesthreea,… a coarse grass.
