rig

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  1. transitive verb To provide with a harness or equipment; fit out.
  2. transitive verb Nautical To equip (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
  3. transitive verb Nautical To fit (sails or shrouds, for example) to masts and yards.
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

mast ·  gear ·  equipment ·  sail ·  cable ·  truck ·  rope ·  machinery ·  hull ·  anchor ·  deck ·  tank

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rig:   rigging ·  rigs ·  rigged
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English riggen, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian rigga, to bind.

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  1. Early modern English rygge; from Norwegian rigga, bind up, wrap round, rig (a ship) (cf. rigg, rigging of a ship), = Swedish dial, rigga, in rigga p̊, harness (rig up) (a horse); perhaps allied to AS. *wrīhan, wreón (past participle wrigen), cover: see wry.
  2. = Norwegian rigg, rigging: see the verb.
  3. Early modern English rigge; prob, for *wrig, and akin to wriggle, wrick: see wriggle, wrick.
  4. from rig, v.
 

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