standing rigging

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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...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• rigging

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

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• Standing

  ·noun Place to stand in; station; stand. II. Standing ·adj Not flowing; stagnant; as, standing wate...

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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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• Water-standing

  ·adj Tear-filled. ...

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• all-standing

  Without preparation, suddenly. This, like many other common expressions, seems to be borrowed from ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• standing backstays

  The rigging proper. (See backstays.) ...

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• standing bevelling

  The alteration made obtuse or outside a square, in hewing timber, as opposed to acute, or under-beve...

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• standing bowsprit

  One that is fixed permanently in its place, not the running-in bowsprit of a cutter. ...

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• standing-jib

  The jib, as distinguished from the other jibs. ...

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• standing-lifts

  Ropes from the mast-heads to the ends of the upper yards, to keep them square and steady when the sa...

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• standing orders

  Special regulations remaining constant for some particular branch of service. ...

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• standing pull

  One with the face towards the tackle, being about 2 feet each pull. ...

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• standing up

  A ship in good trim, and well attended to, is said to stand well up to her canvas. ...

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• standing warrants

  Those officers who remain with a ship in ordinary, or on the stocks, as the gunner, carpenter, boats...

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• standing water

  Water where there is no current or tide. ...

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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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• standing part of a hook

  That part which is attached to a block, chain, or anything which is to heave the hook up, with a wei...

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• standing part of a sheet

  That part which is secured to a ring at the ship's bow, quarter, side, &c. ...

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• standing part of a rope

  The part which is made fast to the mast, deck, or block, in contradistinction to that which is pulle...

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• standing part of a tackle or rope

  The part which is made fast to the mast, deck, or block, in contradistinction to that which is pulle...

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