Meaning

11 senses
  1. One who rigs or dresses; as:

    One whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship or of a counterweight system.

  2. One whose occupation is to lift and move large and heavy objects (such as industrial machinery) with the help of cables, hoists, and other equipment.

  3. One whose occupation is to outfit a computer model with controls for animation.

  4. A worker on an oil rig.

    someone who works on an oil rig

  5. One who rigs or manipulates (an election, etc).

    Manipulierer, Wahlfälscher, Kurstreiber

    someone who rigs ships

  6. A part of a rowing boat's equipment used to provide leverage for a rowing blade or oar around a fixed fulcrum.

    Ausleger

  7. (in compounds)A ship with a certain type of rigging.

  8. A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.

  9. (New Zealand)A plastic bottle of beer, typically between 1 L to 2.5 L volume.

  10. A long, slender, pointed sable paintbrush for making fine lines, etc.; said to be so called from its use for drawing the lines of the rigging of ships.

    Schlepper, Schwertschlepper, Linierpinsel

    a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists

  11. A person who applies functional or artistic rope bondage to another person's body.

Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
one who rigs or dresses:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
one who rigs or dresses:
one who rigs or manipulates (an election, etc):
a part of a rowing boat's equipment:
a long, slender, pointed sable paintbrush for making fine lines, etc.:

Forms

plural: riggers
Singularrigger
Pluralriggers

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists:rigger brush
  • someone who works on an oil rig:oil rigger

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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