grigglesn.
/ˈɡrɪɡ(ə)lz/ With plural agreement. Small apples left on the tree by the gatherer.
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1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1270 Climbing boys..commence griggling. The small apples are called griggles.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Griggles, small apples. In some cyder counties, boys who collect these after the principal ones are gathered, call it griggling.
1893 in Wilts. Gloss.
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ˈgriggling n. collecting ‘griggles’.
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1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1271 Their griggling perambulations.
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