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rigging

[rig-ing] / ˈrɪg ɪŋ /
NOUN
gear
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It has added rigging and fencing businesses and is pursuing work in live events and sports alongside film and TV.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

With its tar-soaked rigging, creaking oak deck and 50 spruce oars, Draken Harald Harfagre is the largest modern replica of a Viking ship.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Except for when passengers, after taking turns at rigging, filed below deck to explore the ship’s white-oak skeleton, which flexed and creaked in the current—the ancient sounds of a seafaring world that’s all but lost.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Meta, meanwhile, is still going strong but has experienced its own earthquakes: from privacy scandals and election rigging accusations to teen mental health crises and toxic online harms.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

Just at this moment Stuart heard a splintering crash, saw the bow of the Lillian plow through his rigging, and felt the whole ship tremble from stem to stern with the force of the collision.

From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White

Instead, firefighters responded to the scene with ropes and riggings and rappelled down to the man’s location.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

After boarding their ships, the players unfurled sails, turned rudders, and climbed riggings to move between a series of tropical islands, climbing ashore to explore the new locations.

From The Verge ● Jun. 13, 2016

The pulleys and riggings of the mine at night, after the first snow.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2015

Robert Brill’s clean, sturdy sets included towering masts, spidery riggings and, in one scene, a brilliantly realized whale-rendering works.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2010

Thyon’s boyhood bed was shaped like a war brig, complete with real sails and riggings, and even miniature cannons, so heavy it took the strength of two maids to rock him to sleep.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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