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rig·ging

(rĭg′ĭng)

1. Nautical The system of ropes, chains, and tackle used to support and control the masts, sails, and yards of a sailing vessel.

2. The supporting material for construction work.

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rigging

(ˈrɪɡɪŋ)

1. (Nautical Terms) the shrouds, stays, halyards, etc, of a vessel

2. (Aeronautics) the bracing wires, struts, and lines of a biplane, balloon, etc

3. (Mechanical Engineering) any form of lifting gear, tackle, etc

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rig•ging

(ˈrɪg ɪŋ)

n.

1. the ropes, chains, etc., used to support and work the masts, yards, sails, etc., on a ship.

2. lifting or hauling tackle.

3. clothing; costume.

[1480–90]

rigging

rig, rigging - A ship's rig is the arrangement of masts, sails, etc.; the rigging is the system of ropes or chains supporting these.
spread-eagle - First described a navy man who was lashed to the rigging for flogging.
furniture - The furniture of a ship is its apparel, including the sails, rigging, and anchor; to apparel, in early use, meant "make ready or fit."
tight ship - Literally one in which ropes and rigging are tied and taut.

Rigging

ropes or chains employed to support masts, 1594.

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Noun	1.	rigging - gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails tackle appurtenance, paraphernalia, gear - equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
	2.	rigging - formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel rig 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 formation - a particular spatial arrangement lateen-rig - the rig on a lateen-rigged sailing vessel

Translations

حِبال الأشْرِعَه والصَّواري

takeláž

rigning

Takelage

gréement

vitorlázat

reiîi, reiîabúnaîur

rigging

[ˈrɪgɪŋ] N (Naut) → jarcia f, aparejo m

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rigging

[ˈrɪgɪŋ] n [ship] → gréement m

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rigging

(Naut, = action) → Auftakeln nt; (Naut: = ropes) → Tauwerk nt

(inf: = dishonest interference) → Manipulation f, → Schiebung f (inf)

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rigging

[ˈrɪgɪŋ] n (Naut) → attrezzatura
standing/running rigging → manovre fpl fisse/correnti

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rig

(rig) – past tense, past participle rigged – verb

to fit (a ship) with ropes and sails.

noun

1. an oil-rig.

2. any special equipment, tools etc for some purpose.

3. the arrangement of sails etc of a sailing-ship.

ˈrigging noun

the ropes etc which control a ship's masts and sails.

rig out to dress: She was rigged out in rather odd clothes ( noun ˈrig-out: She was wearing a strange rig-out)

rig up

to build usually quickly with whatever material is available. They rigged up a rough shelter with branches and mud.

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not only were the old sails being mended, but new sails were coming on board, and bolts of canvas, and coils of rigging; in short, everything betokened that the ship's preparations were hurrying to a close.

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In cutting away the masts, it had been utterly impossible to observe the necessary precaution of commencing with the lee rigging, that being, from the position of the ship, completely under water.

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Then Lerumie took to the main rigging, leaving Jerry impotently to rage on the deck beneath him.

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In a kind of stupor I watched all hands take to the rigging, and slowly but surely she came round to the wind; the sails fluttered, and then bellied out as the wind came into them.

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And Simon Nishikanta tore himself away from his everlasting painting of all colour-delicacies of sea and sky such as are painted by seminary maidens, to be helped and hoisted up the ratlines of the mizzen rigging, the huge bulk of him, by two grinning, slim-waisted sailors, until they lashed him squarely on the crosstrees and left him to stare with eyes of golden desire, across the sun-washed sea through the finest pair of unredeemed binoculars that had ever been pledged in his pawnshops.

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My salmon boat was a-soak, but in the snug cabin of the sloop dry blankets and a dry bunk were mine; and we lay and smoked and yarned of old days, while overhead the wind screamed through the rigging and taut halyards drummed against the mast.

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This done he turns the pelt inside out, like a pantaloon leg; gives it a good stretching, so as almost to double its diameter; and at last hangs it, well spread, in the rigging, to dry.