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RIGGED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fitted or equipped with necessary rigging (sails and shrouds and stays etc)
Classified under:
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb rig
Context examples:
He had a line or two rigged up to help him across the widest spaces—Long John's earrings, they were called; and he would hand himself from one place to another, now using the crutch, now trailing it alongside by the lanyard, as quickly as another man could walk.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The shears were gone altogether. The guys had been slashed right and left. The throat-halyards which I had rigged were cut across through every part. And he knew I could not splice.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
To the end of the boom I had likewise rigged a hoisting tackle; and when the whole arrangement was completed I could not but be startled by the power and latitude it gave me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
