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ridgel

ridgel noun: a ridgeling.

Noun

ridgel (plural ridgels)

  1. (archaic) A ridgeling.
    • They were all alike, mouse-colored, mosted, with corky horns, round and long bodied, grew to a good size, and were remarkably docile, strong, and useful, and all ridgels.1814, Robert Jamieson, “Rosmer Half-Mand, or the Mer-Man Rosmer”, in Illustrations of Northern Antiquities, from the Earlier Teutonic and Scandinavian Romances, page 405

Forms of ridgel

pluralridgels
alternative formridgil

Questions about ridgel

What does ridgel mean?
Ridgel means a ridgeling.
What part of speech is ridgel?
Ridgel is a noun.
What is the plural of ridgel?
The plural of ridgel is ridgels.

Words near ridgel in the dictionary

  1. Ridgefield Park
  2. ridgehand
  3. ridgehands
  4. ridgehead
  5. ridgeheads
  6. ridgel
  7. Ridgeland
  8. ridgeless
  9. ridgelessness
  10. ridgelet
  11. ridgelets

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