different between rigol vs rigoll

English

From Old English [Term?] and ringol. Compare ring.

rigol (plural rigols)

(obsolete) A circle.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece,^[1]
  About the mourning and congealed face
  Of that black blood a watery rigol goes,
  Which seems to weep upon the tainted place:
(obsolete) A diadem, crown (ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty).
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 5,^[2]
  […] this is a sleep
  That from this golden rigol hath divorc’d
  So many English kings.

Corrupted from regal.

rigoll (plural rigolls)

An old musical instrument consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads, and played with a stick with a ball at its end.

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