Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word DARGLE
DARGLE
Definitions of DARGLE
- (Ireland, Dublin, dated) A day excursion; a picnic out of the city.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using DARGLE in a Sentence
- In August 1401 the O'Byrne clan of County Wicklow, who periodically raided Dublin, encamped a large mercenary army, composed mainly of their relatives, the O'Meagher clan, on the banks of the Dargle near Bray.
- Several major river systems have their source in the mountains, such as the Liffey, Dargle, Slaney and Avoca rivers.
- Two small streams join in Kilmacanogue, behind the old Post Office (Donnelly's), to form the Kilmacanogue River, which flows into the River Dargle near the old "Silver Bridge" at Kilbride, approximately two miles to the north, just downstream of the confluence with the Cookstown River.
- The Dodder and Dargle rivers in Dublin overflowed leading to flooding of 416 houses and 35 commercial premises.
- Wicklow County Council recently removed much of the railway embankment in road widening, but left the bridge, which is directly opposite the ornate bridge carrying the watermain over the Cookstown River, a tributary of the River Dargle.
- At the end of the 19th century and into the early 20th century, Irishtown was the location of the Waxies' Dargle, an annual outing by Dublin cobblers ("waxies"), which a well-known folk song recalls.
- There are also several towns located in the midlands, including: Estcourt, Howick, Merrivale, Hilton, Lions River, Dargle, Lidgetton, Balgowan, Nottingham Road, Rosetta and Mooi River.
- At this, the whiny infant laughs! But this mirth is short-lived: the hollering springs afresh and Bosko, abandoning his fiddle, takes up a fife, intoning "The Waxies' Dargle" to Bruno's percussive accompaniment.
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