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rig - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To provide with a harness or equipment; fit out.
- transitive verb To equip (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
- transitive verb To fit (sails or shrouds, for example) to masts and yards.
- transitive verb Informal To dress, clothe, or adorn.
- transitive verb To make or construct in haste or in a makeshift manner.
- transitive verb To manipulate dishonestly for personal gain.
- noun Nautical The arrangement of masts, spars, and sails on a sailing vessel.
- noun Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
- noun A truck or tractor.
- noun A tractor-trailer.
- noun A vehicle with one or more horses harnessed to it.
- noun The special apparatus used for drilling oil wells and extracting the oil.
- noun Informal A costume or an outfit.
- noun Fishing tackle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, the characteristic manner of fitting the masts and rigging to the hull of any vessel: thus, schooner-rig, ship-rig, etc., have reference to the masts and sails of those vessels, without regard to the hull.
- noun Costume; dress, especially of a gay or fanciful description.
- noun An equipage or turnout; a vehicle with a horse or horses, as for driving.
- noun Fishing-tackle collectively; an angler's cast. [Colloq.]
- noun A romp; a wanton; a strumpet.
- noun A frolic: a trick.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
ridge . - noun Same as
ridgel . - noun The apparatus in a cultivator which carries the shovels; a cultivator gang.
- To fit (a ship) with the necessary tackle; fit, as the shrouds, stays, braces, etc., to their respective masts and yards.
- To dress; fit out or decorate with clothes or personal adornments: often with out or up.
- To fit out; furnish; equip; put in condition for use: often followed by out or up.
- To make or use a rig, as in angling: as, to
rig light (that is, to use a light fishing-tackle). - To romp; play the wanton.
- To make free with.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) The peculiar fitting in shape, number, and arrangement of sails and masts, by which different types of vessels are distinguished; See
Illustration in Appendix. - noun colloq. Dress; esp., odd or fanciful clothing.
- transitive verb Obs. or Prov. To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.
- transitive verb (Stock Exchange), [Cant] to raise or lower market prices, as by some fraud or trick.
- intransitive verb To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.
- noun Prov. or Scott. A ridge.
- transitive verb To furnish with apparatus or gear; to fit with tackling.
- transitive verb To dress; to equip; to clothe, especially in an odd or fanciful manner; -- commonly followed by
out . - transitive verb to adapt apparatus so as to get a purchase for moving a weight, as with a lever, tackle, capstan, etc.
- transitive verb (Naut.) to fit the shrouds, stays, braces, etc., to their respective masts and yards.
- noun obsolete A romp; a wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.
- noun A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.
- noun Prov. Eng. A blast of wind.
- noun to play a trick; to engage in a frolic; to do something strange and unbecoming.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang, nautical The
rigging of a sailing ship or other suchcraft . - noun
Special equipment orgear used for a particular purpose. - noun US A large
truck such as asemi-tractor . - noun The special
apparatus used for drilling wells.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English riggen, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian rigga, to bind.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Probably of Scandinavian origin. Compare Norwegian rigge ("to equip").
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Examples
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Words with the same meaning
- Dalai Lama
- Holy Roman Emperor
- Inca
- Kaiser
- accouter
- accouterments
- adjust
- adulterate
- angle
- antic
- apparatus
- appliances
- appoint
- appointments
- appurtenances
- ardri
- arm
- armament
- ballet skirt
- bamboozle
- bey
- bib and tucker
- brew
- buskin
- cabal
- cacique
- caesar
- cap and bells
- caparison
- caper
- cham
- chicane
- clothe
- collude
- complot
- con
- concoct
- connive
- conspire
- conveniences
- cook
- cook up
- costume
- countermine
- counterplot
- czar
- disguise
- doctor
- dress
- duffel
- engineer
- equip
- equipage
- equipment
- facilities
- facility
- fake
- finagle
- finesse
- fit
- fit out
- fit up
- fittings
- fix
- fixtures
- flimflam
- fool
- four-in-hand
- frame
- frame up
- frock
- frolic
- furnish
- furnishings
- furniture
- gear
- getup
- guise
- gull
- habit
- harness
- hatch
- hatch a plot
- hatch up
- heel
- hoax
- hoodwink
- impedimenta
- installations
- intrigue
- juggle
- kaid
- khan
- kit
- lark
- lay a plot
- livery
- load
- machinate
- machinery
- man
- maneuver
- manipulate
- masquerade
- materiel
- mikado
- monkeyshine
- motley
- munition
- munitions
- negus
- operate
- outfit
- pack
- pack the deal
- padishah
- pair
- paraphernalia
- pendragon
- pharaoh
- pilfer
- plan
- plant
- plot
- plumbing
- prearrange
- preconcert
- precontrive
- predesign
- premeditate
- preorder
- prepare
- randem
- retouch
- ridge
- rig out
- rig up
- rigging
- romp
- ropework
- roping
- running rigging
- sachem
- sagamore
- salt
- scheme
- service
- serving
- set up
- setout
- sew up
- shah
- sheikh
- shenanigan
- shines
- shogun
- sock
- sophisticate
- span
- spike
- spike team
- stack
- stack the cards
- staff
- standing rigging
- stock-in-trade
- suit
- tackle
- tackling
- tamper with
- tandem
- team
- tenno
- things
- three-up
- tights
- trappings
- trick
- trousseau
- turn out
- turnout
- tutu
- tycoon
- unicorn
- uniform
- utensils
- wangle
- wanton
- wardrobe
- whipping
trivet commented on the word rig
a kind of truuck - most likely a semi or one with a dawg in the back
February 7, 2007