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Human ankle

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Etymology

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    FromMiddle Englishankel,ancle,ankyll, fromOld Englishancol (compareanclēow(“ankle”) > ModernEnglishanclef,ancliff,ancley), fromProto-West Germanic*ankul, fromProto-Germanic*ankulaz(“ankle”); akin toIcelandicökkla,ökli,Danish andSwedishankel,Dutchenklaauw,enkel,GermanEnkel,Old Norseakka,Old Frisiananckel, and perhapsOld High Germanencha,ancha(“thigh, shin”), from theProto-Germanic*ankijǭ(“ankle, joint”).

    Compare withSanskritअङ्ग(aṅga,“limb”),अङ्गुरि(aṅguri,“finger”),Latinangulus. Comparehaunch and Greek prefixἀγκυλο-(ankulo-,“joint, crooked, bent”).Doublet ofangulus andangle.

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    ankle (pluralankles)

    1. Theskeletaljoint which connects the foot with the leg; theuppermost portion of the foot andlowermost portion of the leg, which contain this skeletal joint.

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    joint between foot and leg

    Verb

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    ankle (third-person singular simple presentankles,present participleankling,simple past and past participleankled)

    1. (slang, ambitransitive) To walk.
      • 1948,Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 1, inSeraph on the Suwanee‎[1], New York: HarperPerennial, published1991, page 5:
        Arvay’s tearful speech followed the usual pattern, and everybody said it was just fine. There had been nothing about the heathens of China, India and Africa wallowing around on the heavenly chairs, norankling up and down the golden streets.
      • 1951,Anthony Buckeridge,Jennings’ Little Hut, London: Collins, 1973, Chapter 15, p. 178,[2]
        Supposing we allankled over to the huts […]
      • 1966,P. G. Wodehouse,Plum Pie, London: Everyman, 2007, Chapter 6, p. 158,[3]
        Heankled round, accordingly, to her house and his ring at the bell was answered by Wilberforce, her butler […]
      • 2009, Thomas Pynchon,Inherent Vice, Vintage, published2010, page275:
        After a while he got up andankled his way down the corridor and met Penny coming out of the toilet.
    2. (cycling) To cyclically angle the foot at the ankle whilepedaling, to maximize the amount of work applied to the pedal during each revolution.

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