rigging

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A general name given to all the ropes or chains employed to support the masts, and arrange the sails according to the direction of the wind. Those are termed "standing" which are comparative fixtures, and support the masts, &c.; and those "running," which are in constant use, to trim the yards, and make or shorten sail, &c.

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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

    Clothing. I'll unrig the bloss; I'll strip the wench. Rum Rigging; fine clothes. The cull has rum ri...

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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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