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Unyielding: stubborn. A rigwiddie is the chain which crosses the back of a horse to hold up the shafts of a cart (rig = back, withy = twig.)
“Withered beldams, auld and droll,
Rigwoodie hags.”
Burns: Tam OʹShanter.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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