riggald dial.
Forms: α. 6 rigolde, reg-, rigald, 8–9 riggald (9 -old); 7, 9 riggilt. β. 7 regle, riggall, 8–9 riggil, 9 reggil, roggel.
[Northern var. of ridgel: see also riggon and riggot.]
A ridgel. Also attrib.
| 1584 Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 18 A weather, a rigolde, and a lame. 1588 Invent. of T. Carppmell, Kendal (Somerset Ho.), It{supm} liiijor weythers; tuppe and regalds. 1596 Invent. in Archaeologia XLVIII. 151 Item Tupp lambes... Item Rigald lambes. 1615 Crooke Body of Man 244 Many creatures haue their Testicles within tyed to their backs,..as some Tuppes or Rammes called Riggall Tuppes. 1617 Moryson Itin. iii. 115 The stones of Rammes and Regles (vulgarly Granella) are esteemed great dainties, especially in Tuscany. 1691 Ray N.C. Words (ed. 2), A Riggilt, a Ram with one Stone. 1703 Thoresby Let. to Ray (E.D.S.), Riggald,..abusively apply'd to men as well as to cattle. 1788 Marshall Rur. Econ. Yorks. II. 348 Riggil, ridgil. 1828– in many dial. glossaries (Northumb., Yorks., Lanc., Derby, Shropsh., Glouc.). |