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rigwelted

rigwelted adjective: stuck on one's back, unable to get up.

Adjective

rigwelted (not comparable)

  1. (Yorkshire, dialectal) Stuck on one's back, unable to get up.
    • Each few breaths the whole her body would jerk as she tried to right herself, but she was proper rigwelted and she couldn't get up.2009, Ross Raisin, God's Own Country
    • Their very strong beer was called Rigwelter, after a rigwelted sheep, which in Yorkshire is one whose fleece has become too heavy and so he falls over on his back and can't get up on his own!2009, Clarissa Dickson Wright, Spilling the Beans

Questions about rigwelted

What does rigwelted mean?
Rigwelted means stuck on one's back, unable to get up.
What part of speech is rigwelted?
Rigwelted is an adjective.

Words near rigwelted in the dictionary

  1. Rigveda
  2. Rigvedi
  3. Rigvedic
  4. Rigvedis
  5. Rigwe
  6. rigwelted
  7. rigwiddie
  8. rigwiddies
  9. rigwiddy
  10. rigwoodie
  11. rigwoodies

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