Defn: A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively.
3. pl.
Defn: An instrument consisting essentiallly of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, — used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea. Blue tangle. (Bot.)See Dangleberry. — Tangle picker (Zoöl.), the turnstone. [Prov. Eng.]
TANGLEFISH
Tan"gle*fish`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The sea adder, or great pipefish of Europe.
TANGLINGLY
Tan"gling*ly, adv.
Defn: In a tangling manner.
TANGLY
Tan"gly, a.
1. Entangled; intricate.
2. Covered with tangle, or seaweed. Prone, helpless, on the tangly beach he lay. Falconer.