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ridgel Now dial.|ˈrɪdʒəl|
Forms: 6–7 ridgell, 8–9 ridgel, 9 rudgel; 7–9 ridgil (8 -ill, 9 -ul); also 7 rigele, -ell(e, -il.
[App. f. ridge n.1 1 (cf. 2 b, quot. 1641), the testicle being supposed to remain near the animal's back, instead of descending into the scrotum.
The northern forms answering to ridgel and ridgeling (see below) are riggald and rigling: cf. also rig n.3, riggon, and riggot1.]
An animal which has been imperfectly castrated († or spayed), or whose genital organs are not properly developed; esp. a male animal (ram, bull, or horse) with only one testicle. Also attrib.
1597in Sheffield Gloss. (1888) 328 That no persone..shall put any ridgell tupp upon the moore..upon payne for euery ridgell so found xijd. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 154 One branded rigelle whye, and a little blacke rigele stot. 1664Cotton Scarron. iv. (1741) 64, I hate a base cowardly Drone Worse than a Rigil with one Stone. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. ix. 31 O Tityrus tend my Herd..And 'ware the Libyan Ridgils butting Head. 1723Dk. Wharton True Briton No. 59, When they make Ridgels, I have known as unlikely things hit off. 1779Phil. Trans. LXIX. 290 Nearly as large..as those of the ridgill, the bull whose testicles never come down. 1811Sporting Mag. XXXVIII. 210 He would not give so much for a ridgil as for a clean-cut horse. 1884–in dial. glossaries (Chesh., Notts., Worc., Glouc.). 1886Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. XVII. 42 Ridgling or ridgil..is still used in Tennessee and the West.
transf.a1625Fletcher Women Pleased ii. vi, A pox of yonder old Rigell The Captaine, the old Captaine. |