单词 | riggle |
释义 | rigglen. Now English regional (western) and Welsh English. 1. A groove or long hollow, esp. one cut in wood or stone. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > groove, channel, or cavity mortisec1390 rabbet1453 rebate1532 scarcement?1553 riggle1555 chamfering1565 mortise hole1585 rebatement1592 chamfer1601 gain1848 score1850 champer1854 blind holes1869 chase1871 1555 in Earl of Hardwicke Misc. State Papers (1778) I. 71 The handle of the same [saw] is kept in a rigall of wood from swerving. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxiii. iv. 221 There lyeth foorth farther out a fouresquare beame or spire, made hollow with a direct and streight passage of a narrow riggall or trough. 1639 in J. J. Cartwright Chapters Hist. Yorks. (1872) 339 A great waightie block wth riggalds for those ribbs to shoote in. 1877 F. T. Elworthy Outl. Gram. Dial. W. Somerset 98/2 I rid [= dug] him [sc. the stone] all round more than three feet deep, and there was a riggle..in him; yes there was. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Riggle, a groove cut round some article, as a notch cut round a stick, to make a lash hold on better. The groove on a pulley is a riggle. 1982 B. G. Charles Eng. Dial. S. Pembrokeshire 40/2 Riggel, a groove. ?c1982 S. Hamer Clun Dial. Words 11 Riggle, a long hollow, used mostly of the hollow down the back of a well-fed beast. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [noun] > ring-like mark riggle1714 1714 London Gaz. No. 5233 A brown Mare in Foal,..two white Riggals round her Ears. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1555 |
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