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v. i.
See Wriggle.
a.
Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails.
a.
Like a rig or wanton.
n.
Originally, a small, sharp-built vessel, with two masts and fore-and-aft rig. Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner. About 1840, longer vessels with three masts, fore-and-aft rigged, came into use, and since that time vessels with four masts and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners, four-masted schooners, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
v. t.
To strip of rigging; as, to unrig a ship.
a.
Rigged for temporary service. See Jury, a.
a.
Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.
imp. & p. p.
of Rig
n.
A platform surrounding the head of the lower mast and projecting on all sudes. It serves to spead the topmast rigging, thus strengheningthe mast, and also furnishes a convenient standing place for the men aloft.
a.
Rigged like a catboat.
n.
In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost sail on a mast. This sail is the one most frequently reefed or furled in working the ship. In a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter, Schooner, Sail, and Ship.
n.
The upper rigging, spars, etc., of a ship.
n.
One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Rig
a.
Having two masts with fore-and-aft sails, but differing from a schooner in that the after mast is very small, and stepped as far aft as possible. See Illustration in Appendix.
v. t.
To loose, and take off, as a bonnet from a sail, or to cast off, as any lacing in any part of the rigging of a vessel.
n.
The European lance fish.
n.
A rope carried taut between or over obstacles likely to engage or foul the running rigging in working a ship.
n.
DRess; tackle; especially (Naut.), the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc. See Illustr. of Ship and Sails.
n.
A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
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