rigbackn.
/ˈrɪɡbak/, U.S. /ˈrɪɡˌbæk/, Scottish English /ˈrɪɡbak/ Scottish.
The back or spine of a person or animal. Cf. ridge n.1 1a.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > [noun]
ridgeeOE
backc1000
rigc1300
chinec1475
rigginga1522
posteriority?1533
rigback1591
backward1636
1591 in C. Innes Registrum Honoris de Morton (1853) I. 176 The arrow is stickand in his rig bak.
1597 P. Lowe Whole Course Chirurg. vii. vii. sig. Aa There is no remedy, but amputation, except in the head, haunch, and rigge backe, in the which we vse remidies palliatiues as ye haue heard.
1629 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1901) 2nd Ser. III. 350 [They] hoghed and gorred the oxin,..cutted their rig backes [etc.].
1796 J. Lauderdale Coll. Poems Sc. Dial. 62 To lay Britannia flat, On her rig back.
1822 J. Hogg Three Perils of Man I. vii. 131 He..struck a third on the rigback, where no leister can pierce a fish.
1871 in Trans. Banffshire Field Club (1939) 37 The Ball hit him in the privey part and out at his rigback.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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