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• The sailors are visible in the rigging, about to unfurl the remaining sails.2010 October 19, Piero Boitani, Professor of Comparative Literature Piero Boitani, Winged Words: Flight in Poetry and History…. From the entry triple-masted
• Some Greek Cypriots accused the state-run Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation of rigging the televote.2007, Ivan Raykoff, Robert Deam Tobin, A Song for Europe, page 140. From the entry televote
• Crowsnests and rigging were crowded with human forms awaiting the end.1920 October, Carl Clausen, “Some Pearls and a Swine”, in Romance, volume 2, number 6, serial number 12, New York, N.Y.: The Ridgway…. From the entry crowsnest
• One of the tools with which appellant claims a bucker should be provided is an undercutter rigging.1912 June 18, Supreme Court of Washington, “HENDRICKSON v. SIMPSON LOGGING CO.”, in The Pacific reporter, page 395. From the entry jackpot
• The appliance which appellant contends Is ordinarily used is known as an undercutter rigging.1912 June 18, Supreme Court of Washington, “HENDRICKSON v. SIMPSON LOGGING CO.”, in The Pacific reporter, page 395. From the entry jackpot
• We can think of rigging a 3D character as a process analogous to setting up the strings that control a puppet.2012, Verónica Orvalho, Pedro Bastos, Frederic Parke, Bruno Oliveira, Xenxo Alvarez, “A Facial Rigging Survey: State of the Art Report”…. From the entry rig
• Many had the bald-headed sail rigging, so crews would not have to go aloft in the winds to do dangerous reefings.2005, John S. Bohne, In the Shadow of the Moon, page 28. From the entry reefing
• Langrel shot was also intended to damage the enemy's rigging.1987, Brian Lavery, The Arming and Fitting of English Ships of War, 1600-1815, page 137. From the entry langrel
• Bar shot and chain shot were primarily used during sea battles to destroy the sails and rigging of enemy vessels.1987 January 1, Robert F. Marx, Shipwrecks in the Americas, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 104. From the entry bar shot
• In the case of the use of multi-boxes experience has shown. that the system engenders gross malpractices and rigging.1985, Francis Aloysius Wazarwahi Bwengye, The agony of Uganda: from Idi Amin to Obote, page 15. From the entry multi-box
• "The rigging slinger hooks the chokers to the main line, the chaser unhooks them at the spar tree."1956, Stewart Hall Holbrook, Holy Old Mackinaw: A Natural History of the American Lumber-Jack, page 184. From the entry chaser
• IN A SAIL LOFT two native women repair canvas rigging for Chinese navy, which maintains several bases on Formosa.1950 February 6, “Formosa Girds for a Lonely Last Stand”, in Life, volume 28, number 6, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28, column 3. From the entry Tsoying
• Butt rigging—a series of heavy steel links, swivels, and shackles—commected the main line to the haulback line and carried up to six chokers.2022 February 14, John Gill, The Wannabe Doctor: A Man's Quest Amid Psychiatry’s Identity Crisis, Page Publishing, Incorporated, page 17. From the entry haulback
• The skiff at the bank bore a strange rigging of uprights and crosspoles and a travis bar with lines and hooks hanging from it.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree. From the entry travis
• The door of the steerage room slammed behind Captain John Mayhue as he reached for a shear-pole and swung himself up into the mizzen rigging to see for himself.2016, Rob MacGregor, The Lost Tribe. From the entry shear-pole
• Water supplies are limited and the lack of experienced casino employees could make it easier for cheaters to bilk casinos, whether at blackjack tables or by rigging slot machines.1986 August 22, Nicholas D. Kristof, “Hot Spot in Sun Belt: Boom Town for Gambling”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry boom town
• There are two brake blocks per wheel of the locomotive, and each brake block is actuated by its own cylinder, which obviates rigging (except to the hand parking brake).1959 March, “The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 124. From the entry brake block
• "A chaser follows the logs to the landing, often riding in a rigging sled hollowed out of a log, which is attached to the rear log.1913, Ralph Clement Bryant, Logging: The Principles and General Methods of Operation in the United States, page 219. From the entry chaser
• Her timbers were olden dreams dreamed long ago, and poets’ fancies made her tall, straight masts, and her rigging was wrought out of the people’s hopes.1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 88. From the entry fancy
• Captain Low put both these men in irons, triced them up in the mizzen rigging, and gave them each four dozen lashes of ratline stuff, which they had well earned.1911, Arthur H[amilton] Clark, “California Clippers of 1852—The ‘Sovereign of the Seas’”, in The Clipper Ship Era: An Epitome of Famous…. From the entry trice

Meaning of rigging

1. noun Dress; tackle; especially (nautical), the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a sailing vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc.
2. noun Similar supporting material used for construction work, or in film, theater, etc.
3. noun The shiplike mechanical components and weaponry attached to a shipgirl.

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How do you use rigging in a sentence?

Rigging is used as a noun. For example: “The moon was full and shone down on us through the masts and rigging of an old fishing wreck, which had been grounded just off the beach where we were sitting.”

What is a short sentence with rigging?

“Langrel shot was also intended to damage the enemy's rigging.”

What does rigging mean?

Rigging means dress; tackle; especially (nautical), the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a sailing vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc.