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Riggin(g) stan(e, staine, ston(e, n. Also: rygg-, rig-, reg-, reig- and -yn, -ine, -e(i)n, -eyn, -ane, -on; ringene and stayn(e. [Riggin(g vbl. n.1 and stane. Also in 19th c. north. Eng. dial.] Stone, or a stone, employed in constructing the (ridge of the) roof of a house, also the crown of a road. See also Riggin(g vbl. n.1 3.coll. and pl.coll. 1471–2 Aberd. Acc. fol. 2b.
Boucht fra Thom Wat of Herwe iiijxx foytis of regyn stayn to the towboytht cost xl 1535–6 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 189.
For iiii rudis iii elnis riggin stane to the north chalmeris foresaid 1536 Maxwell Mem. I 271.
For … ryggeyn stayne onpwtteyne 1599 Aberd. B. Rec. II 201.
To the rigging stane of the calsey 1611 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 336.
Riging stone 1617 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 43.
For … poynting the haill houssis and putting the rigging stane theron 1638 Salmon Borrowstounness 339.
For thigging of the porch and laying on the rigging stone 1650 Misc. 3 Spald. C. 204.
For 70 fuit of rigon stan to the tolbuith 1650–1 Aberd. Shore Wk. Acc. 340.
Ankerag of ane uther bot with reigonstone 1652–3 Ib. 357.
3 last of rigen ston and hewen stonis 1672 M. Bruce Rattling Dry Bones 24.
A moving to the building of a good sydwall upon that good foundation, ay till the riggin-stone be put onpl. 1573 Sempill Sat. P. xxxix 96.
Of Daueis toure … Thay riggein stanes cum tumland ouir the trinschis 1574 St. A. Kirk S. 404.
He sal wirk sum ryggen-stanis of his awin 1582 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 122.
Foure riging stanis … to the wouttis in the kirk 1610 Glasgow Trades House 32.
Rigein stanis 1620 Mylne Master Masons 110.
Quhilk kirk and ile salbe thackit with sklaitt, timberit, rigined with riggane stanes [etc.] 1629 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 300.
Ellevin foote of rigging staines … upon the poulder hous 1650 Cramond Ch. Rathven 20.
A stonne hous sklaitted without rigging stones 1652 Peebles B. Rec. II 7.
Riggine stones 1699 Boharm Kirk S. 14 May.(b) 1561–3 Edinb. Old Acc. I 437.
For ringene stanis to end owt the rigene wyth, xxiiij s.
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