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▪ I. reg2 Physical Geogr.|rɛg|
[N. African Arab.]
A flat area of desert covered with gravel or boulders; stony desert.
1904A. Knox Gloss. Geogr. & Topogr. Terms 324 Reg, firm level ground, generally without vegetation, a barren, naked plain. 1926Chambers's Jrnl. June 341/1 Beyond the harbour,..away to the east, lies open stony ‘Reg’, and thence the vast, empty desert. 1963D. W. & E. E. Humphries tr. Termier's Erosion & Sedimentation ii. 38 Regs and serirs are planed areas with a covering of boulders, which tumble from the surface of the hamadas or from the plains below them. The term reg is generally reserved for the low plains used by caravans. Moreover, this term is applied commonly to all bouldery ground which has been subjected to deflation. 1966M. Woodhouse Tree Frog xxvi. 196, I was somewhere near the edge of a reg, one of those huge flat plains of gravel which are, more than anything, the true desert. 1976L. Deighton Twinkle, twinkle, Little Spy xxiii. 226 The going changed to the gravelly surface of the ‘reg’ and then to rough ‘washboard’.
▪ II. reg3|rɛg|
colloq. abbrev. of regulation.
1952M. Shaara in Mag. of Fantasy & Sci. Fiction Oct. 4 Wisher had decided..to follow the regs without question. For without the regs, the Mapping Command was a death trap. 1971J. Sangster Your Friendly Neighbourhood Death Pedlar iv. 86 I'm sorry I can't do what you ask. Company regs. 1977Hot Car Oct. 53/2 In Germany it will possibly do well because of their strict regs about modding a car.
▪ III. reg
obs. form of rig ridge n., rig v. |