Rig
Source : Wright, Joseph English Dialect Dictionary web : https://eddonline4-proj.uibk.ac.at/edd/main.html
- The space between furrows in a ploughed field; section of a ploughed field; a measure of land; also the first furrow turned in ploughing; the drills in which potatoes, turnips, &c. are planted.
RIG, RIGG, sb.1 and v. Sc. Irel. Nhb. Dur. Cum. Wm. Yks. Lan. Der. Not. Lin. Rut. Lei. Nhp. War. Hnt. e.An. Also written rigge N.Cy.1; ryg Sc. (Jam. Suppl.) w.Yks. [rig.] 1. sb. The back of a person or animal; the spine. ...
- Phr. (1) to be steel to the rig, to be courageous; (2) to carry one's rig, to reap the corn on an assigned section of the harvest-field; (3) to get one's rig up, to get out of temper; (4) to have another rig to hoe, to have ‘other fish to fry’; (5) to set the rig, to make the first furrow in ploughing; (6) to shear one's own rig, to do one's proper share of
