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ridgil

ridgil is the alternative form of ridgel.

Meaning of ridgel

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 ridgil

pluralridgils

Questions about ridgil

What is ridgil the alternative form of?
Ridgil is the alternative form of ridgel.

Words near ridgil in the dictionary

  1. Ridgewell
  2. ridgewise
  3. Ridgewood
  4. ridgier
  5. ridgiest
  6. ridgil
  7. ridgils
  8. ridging
  9. ridging hoe
  10. ridging hoes
  11. ridgings

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