[a. F. tringle (16th c.), in Cotgr. tringle, trangle, ‘a Curtaine-rod; and more generally, a peece of round yron, or wire,… vsed for [various purposes]; also, a flat sticke, or lath-like peece of wood.’ In OF. tingle beam (1328 in Godef.): cf. mod.Du. tengel flat lath.
Hatz.Darm, derive the OF. from the Du. word; but as the latter is app, only mod.Du., and not mentioned even by Kilian (see Franck, Van Wijk), it may be from the Fr. word.]
a. Arch. (See quot. 1696.) b. A curtain-rod, or any long slender rod. Cf. TRANGLE.
1696. Phillips (ed. 5), Tringle, a little square Member, which is directly upon every Triglyph, under the Platband of the Architrave; from whence hang down the Pendant Drops of the Dorick Order [1706 (ed. Kersey), adds] A Curtain-Rod, a Lath that reaches from one Bed-post to another.
1704. in J. Harris, Lex. Techn., I.
1881. W. E. Dickson, Organ-Build., xii. 151. A long rod or tringle of wood, connecting all these arms by pins passing through them and itself.
