▪ I. ˈridgeling Now rare.
Also 6 redge-, 7–9 ridgling.
[-ing or -ling: cf. riglin.]
= ridgel.
| 1555 W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. xi. 259 Greate menne, that cannot alwaie haue their wiues in their own eye, appoincte redgelinges, or guelte menne to awaite vppon them. 1682 D'Urfey Royalist Prol., Yet who here would refuse a kind Intrigue; Faith none; who does it, is a Ridgling Whig. 1684 Dryden Theocritus, Idyl iii. 5 O Tityrus, tend them well,..And 'ware the Ridgling with his butting head. 1886 [see ridgel]. 1891 Hartland Glossary s.v. Ridger. A ridgel or ridgeling, an animal half castrated. 1974 E. C. Stacey Peace Country Heritage ii. 103 Reddon studied the occurrence of ridglings in boars and sought to determine if it was a hereditary trait, which it proved to be. |
▪ II. ridgeling adv.
see rugling.