rigg
/ɹɪɡ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.49 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A small settlement in Dumfriesshire, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY2966).
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "... vpon springe tydes, or after great riggs of the sea, at which tyme the sea will cast the same in more aboundance together into great heapes."
- "to take no better company with you than Michaelmas Riggs? If you do not make haste, I profess I cannot tell what to say to your journey. You may find more danger in a ship to Ireland, than over the Thames in a skuller."
- "[…] that uncertain season, before the riggs of Old Michaelmas were yet well composed, and when the inclement storms of winter were approaching, began to flicker over the seas, and was as busy in building it's halcyon nest as if the angry ocean had been soothed by the[…]"
- "... returne before the Michaelmas Rigg, as they call it, those seas beinge very daingerous about Michaelmas, neuer faile of stormes."
- "This will keep us till the middle of September, and as Michealmass "riggs" (or winds) have an ill name, we think it best to defer our journey to October, which generally gives us[…]"
- "... Michael the Arch Angells Feast, the aforesaid Blow, or last Blow, there about till when those hurtfull winds restrained, Michaelmas riggs so called. As aforeshewed forbidden to hurt the Wine and the Oyle: all speaking as it were[…]"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ryg