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Rigger

noun
1.
Someone who rigs ships.
2.
A long slender pointed sable brush used by artists.  Synonym: rigger brush.
3.
Someone who works on an oil rig.  Synonym: oil rigger.
4.
A sailing vessel with a specified rig.



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"Rigger" Quotes from Famous Books



... Helps' volume, in which are thrown together the son's miscellaneous recollections of the father. The chapter affords further proof that the great contractor was not made of the same clay as the Fisks and Vanderbilts—that he was not a mere market-rigger and money-grubber—but a really great man, devoted to a special calling. He is represented by his son as having taken a lively interest in a wide and varied range of subjects—engineering subjects especially as a matter of course, but not engineering subjects alone. He studied countries and their ...
— Lectures and Essays • Goldwin Smith
... I have seen many of them. Once a sick sailor drew three pictures for me and set down every stay and brace and sail—square-rigger, schooner, and sloop. But this is the first time I ever sailed on any one of the three. And I find I can't tell one stay ...
— The Ragged Edge • Harold MacGrath


Words linked to "Rigger" :   journeyman, oilman, artificer, sailing vessel, sable brush, sable's hair pencil, sable, craftsman, rig, artisan, sailing ship


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