Word Meanings - RIGGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship. 2. A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.

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• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• OCCUPATION
  1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
• PULLEY
  A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain. Note: The pulley, as one
• WHOSE
  The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
• RIGGLE
  The European lance fish.
• RIGGING
  DRess; tackle; especially , 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. Running rigging , all those ropes used in bracing the yards,
• CYLINDRICALLY
  In the manner or shape of a cylinder; so as to be cylindrical.
• RIGGER
  1. One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship. 2. A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
• RIGGISH
  Like a rig or wanton. "Riggish and unmaidenly." Bp. Hall.
• MACHINERY
  1. Machines, in general, or collectively. 2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch. 3. The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to
• CONE PULLEY
  A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.
• SPRIGGED
  Having sprigs.
• SHIP-RIGGED
  Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails.
• CAT-RIGGED
  Rigged like a catboat.
• SQUARE-RIGGED
  Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.
• PRIGGERY
  Priggism.
• THIMBLERIGGER
  One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.
• OUTRIGGER
  1. Any spar or projecting timber run out for temporary use, as from a ship's mast, to hold a rope or a sail extended, or from a building, to support hoisting teckle. A projecting support for a rowlock, extended from the side of a boat. A boat thus
• OVERRIGGED
  Having too much rigging.
• SUBCYLINDRICAL; SUBCYLINDRIC
  Imperfectly cylindrical; approximately cylindrical.
• SCRIGGLE
  To wriggle.
• FRIGG; FRIGGA
  The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya.
• WRIGGLE
  To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions, like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about. Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted. Swift.
• WRIGGLER
  One who, or that which, wriggles. Cowper.