rigging-tree

Updated: May 3, 2025

Treddles's arms though they look as like legs as arms. Ill pleased I was at the fule thing, that cost as muckle as would hae repaired the house from the wa' stane to the rigging-tree. But if I am to bide here, I'll hae a decent board wi' a punch bowl on it." "Is there a doubt of your staying here, Mrs. Steele?"

Sir Walter Scott - Chronicles of the Canongate