Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A machine formed of a clamp worked by a screw, used to force together two parts of a stiff rope, in order that a seizing may be put on.
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Examples
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I afterwards suspected that the new stove had not been 'really necessary' any more than the rigging-screws, but was an excuse for gratifying this curious taste.
The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955
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Having ordered the gun and No. 4's to be sent to my chambers, I bought the Raven mixture with that peculiar sense of injury which the prospect of smuggling in another's behalf always entails; and wondered where in the world Carey and Neilson's was, a firm which Davies spoke of as though it were as well known as the Bank of England or the Stores, instead of specializing in 'rigging-screws', whatever they might be.
The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955
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The astonished Withers saw me breakfasting at eight, and at 9.30 I was vacantly examining rigging-screws with what wits were left me after a sulphurous ride in the Underground to Aldgate.
The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955
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I also asked about rigging-screws in the yachting department, but learnt that they were not kept in stock; that Carey and Neilson's would certainly have them, and that their shop was in the Minories, in the far east, meaning a journey nearly as long as to Flensburg, and twice as tiresome.
The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955
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