niggotn.
Apparently a compositorial misreading of ingot n. Cf. nygot n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [noun] > cast metal > in form of pigs > pig, ingot, or bar
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1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 418 For Itanus the historiographer writeth, that there was brought a maruellous great masse of treasure in niggots of gold, of three thousand seuen hundred and thirteen pound weight.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 642 After the fire was quenched, they found in niggots of gold and siluer mingled together, aboue a thousand talentes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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n.1579- grappling-engine
- grappling-hook
- grappling-instrument
- grappling-iron
- grapplingengine
- grapplinghook
- grapplinginstrument
- grapplingiron
- grapplings
- grapsoid
- grapsoidian
- graptolite
- graptolites
- graptolitic
- graptoloid
- graptomancy
- grapy
- grapy-blue
- grapyblue
- gras
- grash
- grasp
- grasp at
- grasp at straws
- grasp the nettle