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riggus

riggus [cf. ME rigge], kind of royal fish, perh. thornback ray (Raia clavata). Cf. 1 ragadia. 1589 omnes ‥ pisces regales viz. sturgeons, balenas, cetas, porposias, delphinos, ~os, et graspecias, ac omnes alios pisces quoscumque magna[m] ‥ sive ingent' crassitudine[m] ‥ in se habentes (Pat) Hist. Newc. II 603.

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