Now dial. Also 2 wranga, 3–4 wrange, 3–5, 6 Sc. wrang, 6 Sc. wraing, wrayng; 4–5 wronge. [a. ON. *wrǫng, rǫng (gen. rangar), rib of a ship (Norw. rong, raang, vrong, vraang, Sw. dial. vrang), f. *wrangr curved, bent: see WRONG a. Hence also MLG. wrange, Du. wrang, F. varengue (14th c.), varangue, Sp. varenga, floor-timber of a ship.

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  † 1.  A rib of a ship or other vessel; also, a floor-timber of a ship. (Cf. RUNG sb. 4.) Obs.

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  (The sense of the OE. instances is not clear.)

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c. 1000.  Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 201. Cauernamen, wrong. Ibid. (c. 1100), 182. Nomina nauium, et instrumenta earum:… cauernamen, wranga.

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1295.  Acc. Excheq. K. R., 5/8 m. 3. Et xv.d. in .j. Wrange empt’…. Et v.s. j.d. in .v. Wranges emptis. Ibid. (1296), 5/20 m. 1 dorso. In .lx. arboribus emptis de Priore de Tynemue … ad Wrangas faciendas in Galea, xxv.s. Ibid. (1336), 19/31 m. 6. In xl. lignis emptis in grosso pro Wronges faciendis, xv.s.

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1352.  Excheq. Acc. Q. R., 20/27 (P.R.O.). Pro fotynges et wrongs inde confectis in nave predicta.

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1407.  Acc. Excheq. K. R., 44/11 (1) m. 6. In xxiiij. Wronges … infra paruam batellam expenditis. Ibid. (c. 1435), 53/3 m. 9. Pro lx peciis maeremii … pro Wrangys … dicte balingere Regis inde faciendis.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneid, V. xii. 164. Thai … gan to forge newlie wrayngis and airis. Ibid., IX. ii. 98. Vpblesis ourloft, hechis, wrangis, and how.

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  2.  A large crooked branch or bough of a tree, esp. one cut off and lopped for timber. Latterly dial.

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1764.  Ann. Reg., Chron., 88. An oak … which … contained 13 loads 35 feet of timber, 5 loads of wrongs (pieces not less than six inches girt) [etc.].

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1787.  W. H. Marshall, Norfolk, II. 392. Wrongs, crooked arms … of trees.

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1823.  E. Moore, Suffolk Words, 498. The wrongs of oaks … are as valuable nearly as the body or right up timber.

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a. 1825.  Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Wrong, a crooked bough.

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  3.  attrib. (in sense 1), as † wrong-nail, † -rope; † wrong-head, = RUNG-HEAD (cf. wrung-head).

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1296.  Acc. Excheq. K. R., 5/20 m. 3 dorso. M. C. clauis s[c]ilicet Wrangnayl emptis, iij.d.

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c. 1340.  in Nicolas, Hist. Navy (1847), II. 477. [Two ropes called] wrangropes, ijs.

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1352.  Acc. Excheq. K. R., 20/27 (P.R.O.). Pro mmccc. wrongnaill’ emptis pro reparatione navis.

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1356.  in Pipe Roll 32 Edw. III., m. 33/1. ij. wrangeropes … et .xxj. basteropes.

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1633.  Admiralty Crt. Exam. 50, 6 Nov. (MS.). She was sheathed from her bende to the wrong head.

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