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