dial. A tangled mass, a tangle. Cf. tardle vb. to entangle (Dorset) in Eng. Dial. Dict.
1898. T. Hardy, Wessex Poems, 204, The Fire at Tranter Sweatley’s, 45.
| While her great gallied eyes, through her hair hanging loose, | |
| Sheened as stars through a tardle o’ trees. |
