rigger

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His gold never reaches his own pocket; it is filched from him by dexterous thieves; it gleams before him for an instant like the coin spun in the air by the conjurer or thimble-rigger, and then vanishes for ever.

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  1. noun One that rigs: oil and gas riggers.
  2. noun Nautical A ship with a specific kind of rigging.

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  • The out-rigger, which is always kept to windward, acting by its weight at the end of so long a lever, prevents the vessel from turning over by the pressure of the sail; or, should the wind shift suddenly, so as to bring the sail aback, the buoyancy of the floating log would prevent the canoe from upsetting on that side by retaining the out-rigger horizontal. —  The Lieutenant and Commander
  • As soon as these changes have been made, away spins the little fairy bark on her new course, but always keeping the same side, or that on which the out-rigger is placed to windward. —  The Lieutenant and Commander
  • The white flap billowed out behind like the mainsail on an ancient square-rigger, but the noisy engine coughed out a stream of blue smoke in adamant testimony to the twentieth century. —  Brown Waters, Black Berets
  • The fellow replied, 'I don't know whether it went any faster, but I thought the rigger was going to come right off the side of the boat.'
  • Last year's fatal East Side crane collapse could have been prevented had the rigger in charge replaced some old, worn-out polyester straps with new ones costing just $50 each, an outraged Manhattan DA said yesterday in announcing the rigger has been charged with homicide. —  NY Post: News
 

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