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Definition of tangle

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Tangle (v.) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea..

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Entanglement :: Entanglement (n.) State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.

Parallelogram :: Parallelogram (n.) A right-lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel, and consequently equal; -- sometimes restricted in popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles..

Sleave :: Sleave (n.) The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.

Intricacy :: Intricacy (n.) The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot..

Knotted :: Knotted (a.) Entangled; puzzling; knotty.

Unwind :: Unwind (v. t.) To disentangle.

Tangly :: Tangly (a.) Covered with tangle, or seaweed..

Clear :: Clear (v. i.) To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free..

Unreave :: Unreave (v. t.) To unwind; to disentangle; to loose.

Coil :: Coil (n.) Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.

Ravel :: Ravel (v. t.) To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.

Web :: Web (v. t.) To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle..

Soluble :: Soluble (a.) Susceptible of being solved; as, a soluble algebraic problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble..

Dangleberry :: Dangleberry (n.) A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward..

Septangle :: Septangle (n.) A figure which has seven angles; a heptagon.

Afoul :: Afoul (adv. & a.) In collision; entangled.

Snare :: Snare (v. t.) To catch with a snare; to insnare; to entangle; hence, to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity, or danger..

Ensnarl :: Ensnarl (v. t.) To entangle.

Quincunx :: Quincunx (n.) An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one in the middle; especially, such an arrangement of trees repeated indefinitely, so as to form a regular group with rows running in various directions..

Comb :: Comb (v. t.) To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool. See under Combing..