English Explanatory Dictionary

rigaree

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Parallel scores on a raised band, tear, or collar produced using ridges on the edge of a metal wheel.

Word forms

rigaree rigarees

Etymology

From Italian rigare, from riga (“line”) + -are, inherited from Old Italian riga, from Lombardic rīga (“line, row”), from Proto-Germanic *rīgǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyk- (-kh-) (“to scratch, cut”).

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