·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Rig.
II. Rigging ·noun DRess; tackle; especially (Naut.), the ropes, chains, ·etc., that support the masts and spars of a vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, ·etc. ·see Illustr. of Ship and Sails.
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
This includes the act of measuring it. ...
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. ...
See stopper of the cable. ...
That part which is made fast, and not hauled upon; being the shrouds, backstays, and stays for the s...
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...
To draw the upper parts of the shrouds together by tackles, in order to seize on the cat-harping leg...