Definition of Rigged

1. Adjective. Fitted or equipped with necessary rigging (sails and shrouds and stays etc).

Category relationships: Navigation, Sailing, Seafaring
Similar to: Lateen, Lateen-rigged, Outrigged, Square-rigged
Antonyms: Unrigged

Definition of Rigged

1. Adjective. (''for a competition'') pre-arranged and fixed so that the winner is decided before the competition ¹

2. Adjective. (nautical) Having the rigging up ¹

3. Verb. (past of rig) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rigged

1. rig [v] - See also: rig

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rigged

rig up
riga fir
rigadoon
rigadoons
rigamarole
rigamaroles
rigation
rigatoni
rigatonis
rigaudon
rigaudons
rigel
rigg
riggalds
rigged (current term)
rigger
rigger brush
riggers
rigging
riggings
riggish
riggle
riggs
right
right(a)
right-about
right-abouts
right-angle
right-angled

Literary usage of Rigged

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Scientific American Reference Book by Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond (1913)
"Some vessels have all the sails centered at the masts, or are square rigged; in others all the sails are "fore and aft;" and others again have the sails on ..."

2. Scientific American Reference Book by Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond (1913)
"R is a schooner having two masts, both fore and aft rigged; this one having no topsails and only one staysail; К a schooner with gaff topsails (sometimes ..."

3. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1858)
"Iba side view of the Flow rigged with one of the Upland mould-boards, for plowing fiat furrows in stony or rough grass land. No. ..."

4. Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping by Herbert B. Mason (1908)
"A brig is a two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both masts. ... A barque or ship is a three-masted vessel, square- rigged on the two ..."

5. Principles of Ocean Transportation by Emory Richard Johnson, Grover Gerhardt Huebner (1918)
"Full-rigged ship, 5. Bark and barkentine, 5. Sloop and schooner, 6. ... Growth in size and improvement in sailing qualities of full-rigged ships, 10. ..."

6. Principles of Ocean Transportation by Emory Richard Johnson, Grover Gerhardt Huebner (1918)
"Full-rigged ship, 5. Bark and barkentine, 5. Sloop and schooner, 6. ... Growth in size and improvement in sailing qualities of full-rigged ships, 10. ..."

7. Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement, 1608-1650 by William Bradford, Harold Paget (1920)
"This plan has been continued to this day. Having at some trouble and expense new-masted and rigged their pinnace ..."

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