riggle

See also: Riggle

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪɡəl

Etymology 1

Noun

riggle (plural riggles)

  1. (Britain, dialect) The European lancefish.

Etymology 2

Verb

riggle (third-person singular simple present riggles, present participle riggling, simple past and past participle riggled)

  1. Archaic form of wriggle.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 riggle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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