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nounridgel (plural ridgels)
plural ridgels · alternative ridgil
- archaicbiologyA 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
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