Word Finder - rig

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The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.

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Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.

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The climbers each had a different rig for climbing that particular rockface.

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A large truck such as a semi-tractor.

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Every rig at the truckstop had custom-made mud-flaps.

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The special apparatus used for drilling wells.

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A costume or an outfit.

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My sister and I always made our own rigs for Halloween.

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A computer case, often modified for looks.

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An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.

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Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.

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A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.

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To fit out with a harness or other equipment.

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To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.

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To dress or clothe in some costume.

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To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.

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rig up a makeshift shelter

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To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.

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to rig an election

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To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.

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To outfit a model with controls for animation.

The rig was a Pace Arrow.

If you can't find a fixed rappel, you have to rig one, but at popular climbing spots, like in the ice park, there's lots of choices 'cause it's climbed so much.

The rig was parked front end out so I couldn't see the back.

But you could rig an anchor, right?

Almost anybody could rig up an old boat like that.

It'll be a good distraction while we rig the country club and other hotels.

The chief portion of this rig is the derrick, Oil which consists of four strong uprights or legs held in Derrick position by ties and braces, and resting on strong wooden sills, which are preferred, as a foundation, to masonry.

The whole derrick is set up by keys, no mortices or tenons being used, and thus the complete rig may be readily taken down and set up on a new site.

In the Rig Veda the gods (even those of storm) are again and again described as "born from the Rita," or born in it, according to it, or of it.

Why leave it up there if you've got a better choice, like a tree or iron ring to rig your station?

Jimmy, rig them as well, just in case.

Whether that takes into account the need for set-top aerials to be replaced by an outdoor rig or system is not clear.

You will not see people rushing about in a monstrous rig, all goggles and padding and gadgets like the early aviators.

Fishing peg 75, Dave fished small roach dead baits on a ledger rig 30m out.

One day we had approximately 150 buzzard like birds flying around the derrick mast of the rig a truly amazing site.

Top bait is peeler crab on a three-hook flapper rig armed with size 1 hooks.

The original sailing rig is a large balanced lug foresail with a small mizzen, but a gunter sloop rig is now also available.

The yawl is a common traditional rig, but here drawn with a balanced lug foresail for easy handling and safety.

This test rig needs to be replicated and made more generic.

The boys are being taught by instructors, how to rig the boats before leaving the jetty.

Idle Duck sailing after the rig was upgraded with a big roller reefing jib.

This 40 foot ketch is fitted with a twizzle rig for down wind sailing.

This pitch is awkward to rig as the walls slope outwards at approximately 5 degrees to the vertical.

You'll see me eating a pasty at LE with my Rig.

A simple two or three hook paternoster rig baited with rag or crab is the best way to approach this spot.

They are scheduled to play on a rig called the principality Of Sealand sometime this summer.

When problems are found the test rig is extended to attempt to cover previous problems and make sure that we do not regress.

For a start, the more sophisticated approaches have developed during the age of the Bermudan rig.

Network Camera A network camera donated by Axis is mounted in front of the experimental rig.

Pile driving devices are normally part of a larger bespoke drilling rig that is utilized.

These amenities included a Huge dance floor with The best lighting rig in Japan, playing House music.

It is not the place here to argue the pros and cons of high peaked gaff rig.

With her fin keel, wheel steering and sloop rig she is an easy boat to sail.

Colin fished a mackerel tail on a ledger rig 4 rod lengths out.

The rig is used to carry out full-scale bus rollover tests which conform to the ECE Regulation 66.

One of which is to actually run basically two watercooling setups in teh same rig.

It is a very versatile rig, easily managed single-handed.

It has a hard chine hull powered with a conventional bermudan sloop rig.

This was altered in 1928 to the current spruce Bermudan rig with the symmetric spinnaker being adopted in 1969.

Demonstrations by the Airhedz Club, and tryouts on a full size trapeze rig, run by Whitstable-based Expressive Feat aerialist team.

Una rig is fairly shallow and broad in the beam, often fitted with an extra rig.

There are ample natural belays to rig the 4secs (bouncing) drop, which remains undescended.

The stock of the anchor rests on the cat-head when hung outside the ship. The name is also used of a type of a vessel, now obsolete, and formerly used in the coal and timber trade on the north-east coast of England; it had a deep waist and narrow stem; it is still applied to a small rig of sailing boats, with a single mast stepped far forward, with a fore and aft sail.

At the same time their avoidance of exact definition embodied in a rig i d creed, together with their disuse of the outward ordinances of Baptism and the Supper, has laid them open to considerable misunderstanding.

This may have been a configuration problem as the test rig includes two wireless routers in repeater mode to extend the range.

Resin anchors are provided to rig a traverse line over it.

Versatile rig and very easy to use once you get to grips with the menu system.

What kind of paint can I use to paint some scaffolding poles black in a rig.

The result was a flat bottomed vessel with lee boards and a tall spritsail rig, very handy in shallow estuary waters.

Two years later she was converted and began a new career as a rig standby vessel in the busy southern North Sea gas fields.