v. Sc. Also 7 teagle. [app. mod. Sc. form of ME. tagil, tagyl, TAGLE, q.v.]
1. trans. To entangle, impede, or hinder in course or action; to keep back, retard, detain, delay.
[c. 1340: see TAGLE.
1635. Dickson, Writings (1845), I. 194. He … forgot all things which might teagle him in the way. Ibid. Forget things past that would teagle us.
1684. Peden, in Life & Prophecies (1868), 56. Tell all the Lords people to try by mourning and prayer to teagle Him.
1895. Fraser, Whaups, ii. 23. Others cunningly stretched out their legs to taigle the wrathful dominie.
1895. Crockett, Men of Moss-Hags, 64. Ye hae taigled us overly long already.
2. To ‘catch’ or entangle in talk; to embarrass.
1865. in Beeton’s Bk. Anecd., 24. Two graceless, young fellows who had determined, as they said, to taigle their minister.
3. intr. To linger, tarry, delay; to dally, loiter.
17[?]. Laird o Ochillree Wawis, ix., in Child, Ballads, VII. ccxvii. 196/1. Kind maister, ye’ve taiglit lang.
1823. Galt, R. Gilhaize, xxvi. (E.D.D.). Robin Brown taigled more than two hours for me.
1895. Crockett, Men of Moss-Hags, xi. 87. ‘Make haste,’ they said, ‘we haena time to taigle wi’ ye.’
4. intr. To walk slowly or heavily, to drag oneself, to trudge.
1886. Stevenson, Kidnapped, xviii. Ay, man, ye shall taigle many a weary foot, or we get clear! Ibid. (1893), Catriona, vii. 74. A man that comes taigling after a Macgregor’s daughter. Ibid., xix. 223. Her two sisters had to taigle home by theirselves.
