RIGGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rigger mean? 

• RIGGER (noun)
  The noun RIGGER has 4 senses:

1. someone who rigs ships

2. a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists

3. someone who works on an oil rig

4. a sailing vessel with a specified rig

  Familiarity information: RIGGER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIGGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who rigs ships

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("rigger" is a kind of...):

artificer; artisan; craftsman; journeyman (a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft)

Derivation:

rig (equip with sails or masts)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A long slender pointed sable brush used by artists

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

rigger; rigger brush

Hypernyms ("rigger" is a kind of...):

sable; sable's hair pencil; sable brush (an artist's brush made of sable hairs)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Someone who works on an oil rig

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

oil rigger; rigger

Hypernyms ("rigger" is a kind of...):

oilman (a worker who produces or sells petroleum)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A sailing vessel with a specified rig

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

a square rigger

Hypernyms ("rigger" is a kind of...):

sailing ship; sailing vessel (a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts)

 Context examples 

Ham carrying me on his back and a small box of ours under his arm, and Peggotty carrying another small box of ours, we turned down lanes bestrewn with bits of chips and little hillocks of sand, and went past gas-works, rope-walks, boat-builders' yards, shipwrights' yards, ship-breakers' yards, caulkers' yards, riggers' lofts, smiths' forges, and a great litter of such places, until we came out upon the dull waste I had already seen at a distance; when Ham said, Yon's our house, Mas'r Davy!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)