ˈrig-bone Now Sc. and north.
Forms: α. 4 rigbon, 5–6 ryg-, 6 rigbone. β. 5 rygbane, 6, 9 Sc. rigbane (9 north. -baan, -beean, -beyan).
[f. rig n.1]
= ridge-bone.
| a 1330 Syr Degarre 450 Some he brekketh the nekke anon, And of some the rig-bon. c 1400 Song of Roland 736 His shulder smot he quyt asundur, rent out the rigbon. 1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. (W. de W.) v. xxxi. 142 The joyntes of the rygbone and of the breste bone. a 1510 Douglas King Hart ii. 112 Ane felloun rout he layde on his rig-bone. 1828 Carr Craven Gloss., Rig-Baan, the back bone. 1894 P. H. Hunter J. Inwick 183 It was men like me wha were the rig-bane o' the Leeberal pairty. |