rigol
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See also: ri•gol
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English rigol, from Middle French rigole.[1] Doublet of rail, regal, regula, and rule.
Noun
[edit]rigol (plural rigols)
- (obsolete) A circle.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto)[1], London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
- About the mourning and congealed face
Of that black blood a watery rigol goes,
Which seems to weep upon the tainted place:
- (obsolete) A diadem, crown (ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty).
- c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
- […] this is a sleep
That from this golden rigol hath divorc’d
So many English kings.
- (nautical) A ridge or channel above a porthole to redirect water flow from dripping inside the vessel.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rigol”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Descendants
[edit]- → Welsh: rhigol (“groove, furrow”)
References
[edit]- ^ “rigol, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French rigole.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rigol m inan
- a small gutter to drain water away
- (colloquial) a pothole
Declension
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