ˈrimestock rare.
Also 7–8 rimstock (7 -stoc), 9 rimstoke.
[ad. Norw. rimstok, = rimstaf, primstaf: see primstaff.]
A clog-almanac.
| 1662 Evelyn Chalcogr. (1769) 38 Danes and Norwegians had..their runic writings, or engraven letters, as in their rimstoc or primstaff. 1686 Plot Staffordsh. 423 These Symbols..have a more rational orderly texture than the Runæ upon the Danish Rimestocks, or the Swedish or Norwegian Primstaves. 1834 Southey Doctor xc. (1862) 200 There is no proof that a pagan rimstoke ever existed in those countries. |