RIGGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rigged mean? 

• RIGGED (adjective)
  The adjective RIGGED has 1 sense:

1. fitted or equipped with necessary rigging (sails and shrouds and stays etc)

  Familiarity information: RIGGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIGGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fitted or equipped with necessary rigging (sails and shrouds and stays etc)

Similar:

lateen; lateen-rigged (rigged with a triangular (lateen) sail)

outrigged (rigged with a structure projecting from or over the side of a boat for various purposes; to prevent capsizing or to support an oarlock or to help secure a mast etc)

square-rigged (rigged with square sails as the principal ones)

Domain category:

navigation; sailing; seafaring (the work of a sailor)

Antonym:

unrigged (stripped of rigging)

 Context examples 

A derrick-boom, rigged to the foremast, had accomplished this; and several days more found all stays and shrouds in place, and everything set up taut.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“She must be newly rigged,” said Steerforth, “and I shall leave Littimer behind to see it done, that I may know she is quite complete. Did I tell you Littimer had come down?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Another cursed the Admiralty Courts, where a prize goes in as a full-rigged ship and comes out as a schooner.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So I rigged this framework which keeps them from bein' too pressin' in their attentions.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Gray not only saved his money, but being suddenly smit with the desire to rise, also studied his profession, and he is now mate and part owner of a fine full-rigged ship, married besides, and the father of a family.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Hand in hand with reading, he had developed the habit of making notes, and so copiously did he make them that there would have been no existence for him in the confined quarters had he not rigged several clothes-lines across the room on which the notes were hung.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He had armed himself with a draw-knife from the tool-locker, and with this he prepared to cut across the throat-halyards I had again rigged to the shears.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I rigged up a contraption to hold off those stinking beasts, and I spent a happy day there with a spud.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now and again too there would come a cloud of light sprays over the bulwark and a heavy blow of the ship's bows against the swell; so much heavier weather was made of it by this great rigged ship than by my home-made, lop-sided coracle, now gone to the bottom of the sea.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In half a day I got the two topmasts aboard and the shears rigged and guyed as before.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)