'Blue tangle' definitions:

Definition of 'Blue tangle'

From: GCIDE
  • Tangle \Tan"gle\, n.
  • 1. [Cf. Icel. [thorn]["o]ngull. See Tang seaweed.] (Bot.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the {Laminaria saccharina}. See Kelp. [1913 Webster]
  • Coral and sea fan and tangle, the blooms and the palms of the ocean. --C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. [From Tangle, v.] 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. pl. An instrument consisting essentially 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Blue tangle. (Bot.)See Dangleberry.
  • Tangle picker (Zool.), the turnstone. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]