ˈroddikin Sc.
Also 6 rodekein, 8 -ikin, roddickin, 9 ruddiken.
[Perh. ad. Du. or Flem. *roodeken, dim. of roode (Kilian), = read n.1]
The fourth stomach of a ruminant animal.
| 1599 in Stirling Nat. Hist. Soc. Trans. (1902) 28 Item xij rodekeins. 1796 Young's Annals Agric. XXVII. 69 An obstruction takes place, and..the stomach, called the Rodikin, is greatly inflamed. c 1805 Macneill Poems (1844) 88 Roasted hen, and collops plenty; And roddickins, and penches too. 1817 Blackw. Mag. Dec. 302 Pray, sir, allow me to help you—I shall send you a nice piece of ruddiken. |