Rigger

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.

II. Rigger ·noun One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship.

III. Rigger ·add. ·noun A long slender, and pointed sable brush for making fine lines, ·etc.;

— said to be so called from its use by marine painters for drawing the lines of the rigging.

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