Obs. rare. Also 6 clarigol. [Perverted form of CLARICHORD; cf. claricall, claricoes, there mentioned.]
1. A stringed musical instrument, a CLARICHORD.
1558. Will of J. Hide (Somerset Ho.). I geve and bequeathe unto Margery Weekes … my Clarygoldes.
1592. Dr. Faustus, in Thoms, Prose Rom. (1858), III. 178. Organs, clarigolds, lutes, viols,… and all manner of other instruments.
2. A constable: ‘perhaps because their whips were “stringed instruments”’ (W. D. Macray, ed. Ret. Parn.).
1597. 1st Pt. Return fr. Parnass., IV. i. 1269. I bespoke you a pasport, least the clarigols att some towns ende catche you. Ibid., V. ii. 1544. Let us loiter noe longer, leaste the clarigoles catche us.
