Sc. [f. TANGLE sb.3] Long and limp; tall and loose-jointed. Also in comb., as tangle-backed.
c. 1817. Hogg, Tales & Sk., I. 291. She was perfectly weak and tangle, her limbs being scarcely able to bear her weight.
1825. Jamieson, Tangle, tall and feeble, not well knit, as, ‘a lang tangle lad.’
1896. L. Keith, Ind. Uncle, x. 172. Yin o’ the tangle-backit kind.
