RIGGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rigging mean? 

• RIGGING (noun)
  The noun RIGGING has 2 senses:

1. gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails

2. formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel

  Familiarity information: RIGGING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIGGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

rigging; tackle

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

appurtenance; gear; paraphernalia (equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.)

Derivation:

rig (equip with sails or masts)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

rig; rigging

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

formation (a particular spatial arrangement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rigging"):

Bermuda rig; Bermudan rig; Bermudian rig; Marconi rig (a rig of triangular sails for a yacht)

cat rig (rig of a catboat)

fore-and-aft rig (rig in which the principal sails are fore-and-aft)

lateen-rig (the rig on a lateen-rigged sailing vessel)

Derivation:

rig (equip with sails or masts)

 Context examples 

I’ve had the feel iv it this long time, and I can feel it now as plainly as I feel the rigging iv a dark night.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And the Spy-glass is sold, lease and goodwill and rigging; and the old girl's off to meet me.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He could not express what he felt, and to himself he likened himself to a sailor, in a strange ship, on a dark night, groping about in the unfamiliar running rigging.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When I joined the Service, you would find a lieutenant gammoning and rigging his own bowsprit, or aloft, maybe, with a marlinspike slung round his neck, showing an example to his men.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As he spoke, there was another great cry of pity from the beach; four men arose with the wreck out of the deep, clinging to the rigging of the remaining mast; uppermost, the active figure with the curling hair.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That the largest balls thus discharged, would not only destroy whole ranks of an army at once, but batter the strongest walls to the ground, sink down ships, with a thousand men in each, to the bottom of the sea, and when linked together by a chain, would cut through masts and rigging, divide hundreds of bodies in the middle, and lay all waste before them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Her monstrosities in the way of cattle would have taken prizes at an agricultural fair, and the perilous pitching of her vessels would have produced seasickness in the most nautical observer, if the utter disregard to all known rules of shipbuilding and rigging had not convulsed him with laughter at the first glance.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

While I was rigging it between the top of the spar and the opposite rail, Wolf Larsen came on the scene.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

One mast was broken short off, six or eight feet from the deck, and lay over the side, entangled in a maze of sail and rigging; and all that ruin, as the ship rolled and beat—which she did without a moment's pause, and with a violence quite inconceivable—beat the side as if it would stave it in.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I started to rush below to the flag-locker, then remembered that in rigging the Ghost.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)