riggle

• Rhymes: -ɪɡəl

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riggle (plural riggles)

1. (UK, dialect) The European lancefish.

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

1. Archaic form of wriggle.
   • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson;  […], →OCLC:

     I must take care, knowing what an eеl I have to do with, that the little riggling rogue does not slip through my fingers

• “riggle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• ligger