rigwelted
English
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editrigwelted (not comparable)
- (Yorkshire, dialect) Stuck on one's back, unable to get up.
- 2009, Ross Raisin, God's Own Country:
- Each few breaths the whole her body would jerk as she tried to right herself, but she was proper rigwelted and she couldn't get up.
- 2009, Clarissa Dickson Wright, Spilling the Beans:
- Their very strong beer was called Rigwelter, after a rigwelted sheep, which in Yorkshire is one whose fleece has become too heavy and so he falls over on his back and can't get up on his own!