My daughter is reading 'The Fifth of March - a story of the boston massacre' by Ann Rinaldi in her reading class - fifth grade.

There is a reference to the word 'dongled' in a sentence and I can't find an appropriate definition. I'm aware of the term as it is used in reference to computers - hardly the case in a revolutionary war timeframe.

So...... here's the sentence out of the book "Have the children settled down since being dongled awake by those tyrannical cannons?"

Any ideas -