History of the verb "ankle"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

New Language Log post of potential interest to ADS-Lers:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004210.html

Includes these antedatings:

"ankle" (intrans.) = 'to walk or run', 1917 (OED/HDAS 1926)
"ankle" (trans.) = 'to depart from, quit (something)', 1950 (HDAS 1973)

Comments welcome.

--Ben Zimmer

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