betime vs dangle

betime

verb
  • To occur; betide. 

adv
  • Betimes. 

dangle

verb
  • To put forth as a possibility. 

  • Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed. 

  • To hang or trail something loosely. 

  • To hang loosely with the ability to swing. 

  • The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string. 

  • To position (a patient) in this way. 

noun
  • The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style. 

  • An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group. 

  • A dangling ornament or decoration. 

How often have the words betime and dangle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )