Meanings
nounrigol (plural rigols)
plural rigols
- obsoleteA circle.
About the mourning and congealed face Of that black blood a watery rigol goes, Which seems to weep upon the tainted place:
1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC - obsoleteA diadem, crown (ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty).
[…] this is a sleep That from this golden rigol hath divorc’d So many English kings.
c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v] - nauticalA ridge or channel above a porthole to redirect water flow from dripping inside the vessel.
Origin
- Middle Frenchrigole
- Middle Englishrigol
- Englishrigol
From Middle English rigol, from Middle French rigole. Doublet of rail, regal, regula, and rule.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rigol,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rigol.
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