[f. FANGLE v.2 + -MENT.] The action of fangling or fashioning; hence, something fashioned or made, an invention, a contrivance.
a. 1670. Hacket, Abp. Williams, I. § 108 (1692), 97. How faithfully, and with what Courage, like himself, he adventur’d to maintain Orthodox Religion against old Corruptions, and new Fanglements, will be a Labour to unfold hereafter.
1866. Blackmore, Cradock Nowell, xiii. (1881), 53. Hundreds of forcible Saxon words still lurk in the crafts to which the beaten race betook itself—words which are wanted sadly, and pieced out very unpleasantly by roundabout foreign fanglements.
1888. Elworthy, W. Somerset Word-bk., 797. I never don’t zee no good in none o’ these here new-farshin vanglements ’bout farmerin’ an’ that.
