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rigger

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rig·ger  (rgr)
n.
1. One that rigs: oil and gas riggers.
2. Nautical A ship with a specific kind of rigging.
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Noun1.riggerrigger - someone who rigs ships
artisan, journeyman, artificer, craftsman - a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft
2.rigger - a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists
rigger brush
sable, sable brush, sable's hair pencil - an artist's brush made of sable hairs
3.rigger - someone who works on an oil rig
oil rigger
oilman - a worker who produces or sells petroleum
4.rigger - a sailing vessel with a specified rig; "a square rigger"
sailing ship, sailing vessel - a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts
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There has been a time when a ship's chief mate, pocket-book in hand and pencil behind his ear, kept one eye aloft upon his riggers and the other down the hatchway on the stevedores, and watched the disposition of his ship's cargo, knowing that even before she started he was already doing his best to secure for her an easy and quick passage.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
Every once and a while Peleg came hobbling out of his whalebone den, roaring at the men down the hatchways, roaring up to the riggers at the mast-head, and then concluded by roaring back into his wigwam.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
Rogue Riderhood dwelt deep and dark in Limehouse Hole, among the riggers, and the mast, oar and block makers, and the boat- builders, and the sail-lofts, as in a kind of ship's hold stored full of waterside characters, some no better than himself, some very much better, and none much worse.
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context
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