·adj Rigged for temporary service. ·see Jury, ·adj.
II. Jury-rigged ·add. ·adj Rigged for temporary service.
·adj For temporary use; — applied to a temporary contrivance. II. Jury ·adj A committee for determ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Rig>>. ...
Completely equipped. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·add. ·- An apparatus to support the trunk and head in spinal disease. II. Jury mast ·add. ·- A tem...
A wooden leg: allusion to a jury mast, which is a temporary substitute for a mast carried away by a ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A temporary or occasional mast erected in a ship in the place of one which has been carried away in ...
A contrivance, of which there are several kinds, for supplying a vessel with the means of steering w...
·adj Rigged like a catboat. ...
·adj Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails. ...
·adj Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished fro...
·adj Having two masts with fore-and-aft sails, but differing from a schooner in that the after mast ...
A ship with more and heavier gear than necessary, so as to be top-hampered. ...
Ships having chiefly square sails; a term used in contradistinction to all vessels which do not use ...
One who engrosses all the talk to himself, or speaks for the rest of the company. ...
mast; i.e. a mast for the day or occasion. ...