▪ I. ˈrigol, n.
Also 6–7 rigoll.
[ad. F. rigole water-course, gutter, furrow, drill, groove: see riggal and regal n.3 for variant forms in English.]
1. A ring or circle. (Now only with reference or allusion to Shakes. 2 Hen. IV.)
App. derived from the application of the word to a groove running round a thing: cf. sense 3 and rigol v., also riggal 2 and regal n.3 (quot. 1886). The possibility that in both passages it may be an error for ringol, var. of ringle n.1, appears to be very slight.
| 1593 Shakes. Lucr. 1745 About the mourning and congealed face Of that blacke bloud, a watrie rigoll goes, Which seemes to weep vpon the tainted place. 1597 ― 2 Hen. IV, iv. v. 36 This is a sleepe, That from this Golden Rigoll hath diuorc'd So many English Kings. 1733 L. Theobald Wks. Shakes. III. 517 Hence a Rigolet, or Rigol, may, I presume, stand in English for a Circle, any Thing round. 1826 Hazlitt Plain Speaker II. ix. 263 Here love's golden rigol bound his brows. 1883 G. Macdonald Princess & Curdie xix. 145 His crown..lay in front of him, his long, thin old hands folded round the rigol, and the ends of his beard straying among the lovely stones. |
2. † a. A small furrow or drill for seeds. Obs.—1
| 1599 Gardiner Kitchin Garden 16 His sowing in Rigols doth saue the better halfe of the seedes. |
b. dial. A small channel or gutter.
| 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. 352 I've made a bit of a rigol to carry the waiter off the posy-knot. |
c. Sailing. (See quots.)
| 1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 172 Rigol, the outboard semicircular gutterway over a porthole. 1976 Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea 711/2 Rigol, a curved, semicircular steel strip riveted to a ship's side over a scuttle with the object of deflecting any water which runs down the side of the ship and preventing it from entering the scuttle when it is open. |
3. dial. A groove.
| 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. 352 Look at the dirt i the rigol round the table. |
▪ II. † ˈrigol, v. Obs. rare—0.
[f. rigol (cf. prec.), var. of riggal and regal n.3. F. rigoler (now dial.) is app. not recorded in this sense.]
trans. To furnish (a barrel) with a groove at the top, into which the head fits.
| 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Enjabler, to rigoll a tunne, hogshead, or barrell, and to putte the heade vnto it. 1611 Cotgr., Enjabler, to rigoll a peece of caske; or, to make the Crowes. Ibid., Renjabler, to new-rigol a peece of caske. |