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▪ I. ˈrigol, n.
Also 6–7 rigoll.
[ad. F. rigole water-course, gutter, furrow, drill, groove: see riggal and regal n.3 for variant forms in English.]
1. A ring or circle. (Now only with reference or allusion to Shakes. 2 Hen. IV.)
App. derived from the application of the word to a groove running round a thing: cf. sense 3 and rigol v., also riggal 2 and regal n.3 (quot. 1886). The possibility that in both passages it may be an error for ringol, var. of ringle n.1, appears to be very slight.
1593Shakes. Lucr. 1745 About the mourning and congealed face Of that blacke bloud, a watrie rigoll goes, Which seemes to weep vpon the tainted place. 1597― 2 Hen. IV, iv. v. 36 This is a sleepe, That from this Golden Rigoll hath diuorc'd So many English Kings. 1733L. Theobald Wks. Shakes. III. 517 Hence a Rigolet, or Rigol, may, I presume, stand in English for a Circle, any Thing round. 1826Hazlitt Plain Speaker II. ix. 263 Here love's golden rigol bound his brows. 1883G. Macdonald Princess & Curdie xix. 145 His crown..lay in front of him, his long, thin old hands folded round the rigol, and the ends of his beard straying among the lovely stones.
2.
†a. A small furrow or drill for seeds. Obs.—1
1599Gardiner Kitchin Garden 16 His sowing in Rigols doth saue the better halfe of the seedes.
b. dial. A small channel or gutter.
1879G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. 352 I've made a bit of a rigol to carry the waiter off the posy-knot.
c. Sailing. (See quots.)
1961F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 172 Rigol, the outboard semicircular gutterway over a porthole. 1976Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea 711/2 Rigol, a curved, semicircular steel strip riveted to a ship's side over a scuttle with the object of deflecting any water which runs down the side of the ship and preventing it from entering the scuttle when it is open.
3. dial. A groove.
1879G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. 352 Look at the dirt i the rigol round the table.
▪ II. † ˈrigol, v. Obs. rare—0.
[f. rigol (cf. prec.), var. of riggal and regal n.3. F. rigoler (now dial.) is app. not recorded in this sense.]
trans. To furnish (a barrel) with a groove at the top, into which the head fits.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Enjabler, to rigoll a tunne, hogshead, or barrell, and to putte the heade vnto it. 1611Cotgr., Enjabler, to rigoll a peece of caske; or, to make the Crowes. Ibid., Renjabler, to new-rigol a peece of caske. |