Obs. rare. [a. OF. corrigiole (in Paré) = la renouée, i.e., knotgrass, a. L. *corrigiola, dim. of corrigia thong, shoe-latchet.] The Knotgrass, Polygonum aviculare.
(Corrigiola is in modern Botany taken as the name of another genus, the Strapwort, N.O. Paronychiaceæ.).
c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 247. Grinde hem sotilly & tempere hem wiþ iuys of corigiole & make þerof polottis.
1565. J. Hall, Lanfranke’s Chirurg., Table 29. Corrigiola, so called of the Apothecaries, and of the Frenche men Corrigiole, is oure common knottgrasse.
