rigging

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Clothing. I'll unrig the bloss; I'll strip the wench. Rum Rigging; fine clothes. The cull has rum rigging, let's ding him and mill him, and pike; the fellow has good clothes, let's knock him down, rob him, and scour off, i.e. run away.

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  • Rigging

    ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Rig>>. II. Rigging ·noun DRess; tackle; especially (Naut.), the ropes, chains,...

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  • rigging

    A general name given to all the ropes or chains employed to support the masts, and arrange the sails...

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  • cutting rigging

    This includes the act of measuring it. ...

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  • rigging-loft

    A long room or gallery in a dockyard, where rigging is fitted by stretching, serving, splicing, seiz...

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  • rigging-mats

    Those which are seized upon a vessel's standing rigging, to prevent its being chafed. ...

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  • rigging out

    A term for outfitting. Also, a word used familiarly to express clothing of ship or tar. ...

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  • rigging-stopper

    See stopper of the cable. ...

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  • standing rigging

    That part which is made fast, and not hauled upon; being the shrouds, backstays, and stays for the s...

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  • fit rigging, to

    To cut or fit the standing and running rigging to the masts, &c. ...

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  • span of rigging

    The length of shrouds from the dead-eyes on one side, over the mast-head, to the dead-eyes on the ot...

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  • turning in rigging

    The end of a vessel's shrouds carried round the dead-eyes, laid back and secured by seizings. ...

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  • rattle down rigging, to

    or, to rattle the shrouds. To fix the ratlines in a line parallel to the vessel's set on the water...

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  • set up rigging, to

    To take in the slack of the shrouds, stays, and backstays, to bring the same strain as before, and t...

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  • span in the rigging, to

    To draw the upper parts of the shrouds together by tackles, in order to seize on the cat-harping leg...

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