See stopper of the cable.
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Rig>>. II. Rigging ·noun DRess; tackle; especially (Naut.), the ropes, chains,...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·vt To close or secure with a stopper. II. Stopper ·noun A short piece of rope having a knot at one...
Clothing. I'll unrig the bloss; I'll strip the wench. Rum Rigging; fine clothes. The cull has rum ri...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A general name given to all the ropes or chains employed to support the masts, and arrange the sails...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A whoremaster. ...
One rove through the knee of the bitts, which nips the cable on the bight: it consists of four or fi...
See cat-stopper ...
, or cathead-stopper A piece of rope or chain rove through the ring of an anchor, to secure it for...
There are various kinds of stoppers for chain-cables, mostly acting by clamping or compression. ...
A contrivance for holding the chain-cable by compression. ...
This includes the act of measuring it. ...
(See stopper of the cable.) A strong stopper used for securing the cable forward of the capstan or w...
Put on before all to enable the men to bit the cable, sometimes to fleet the messenger. ...
A long room or gallery in a dockyard, where rigging is fitted by stretching, serving, splicing, seiz...
Those which are seized upon a vessel's standing rigging, to prevent its being chafed. ...
A term for outfitting. Also, a word used familiarly to express clothing of ship or tar. ...
A long piece of rope secured to an after ring-bolt, and the loop embracing the cable through the nex...
A stout rope-stopper made fast above and below a part of the shroud which has been damaged by an ene...
That part which is made fast, and not hauled upon; being the shrouds, backstays, and stays for the s...
Single and double wall, without crowning, and the ends stopped together. ...
To cut or fit the standing and running rigging to the masts, &c. ...
The length of shrouds from the dead-eyes on one side, over the mast-head, to the dead-eyes on the ot...
The end of a vessel's shrouds carried round the dead-eyes, laid back and secured by seizings. ...
or, to rattle the shrouds. To fix the ratlines in a line parallel to the vessel's set on the water...
To take in the slack of the shrouds, stays, and backstays, to bring the same strain as before, and t...
A strong rope attached to the cat-head, which, passing through the anchor-ring, is afterwards fasten...
Commonly called a deck-stopper. A piece of rope having a large knot at one end, and hooked or lashed...
To draw the upper parts of the shrouds together by tackles, in order to seize on the cat-harping leg...