reigle

verb, noun — 2 senses

reigle

verb

1

Obsolete To regulate; to govern.

reigle

noun

1

A hollow cut or channel for guiding anything.

In one of the corners next the sea, standeth a flood-gate, to bee drawne vp and let downe through reigles in the side postes1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:

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