rig out

verb (used with object)

Chiefly Nautical.

to put in proper order for working or use.

to fit (a ship, mast, etc.) with the necessary shrouds, stays, etc.

to fit (shrouds, stays, sails, etc.) to the mast, yard, or the like.

to furnish or provide with equipment, clothing, etc.; fit (usually followed by out or up ).

to assemble, install, or prepare (often followed by up ).

to manipulate fraudulently: to rig prices.

noun

the arrangement of the masts, spars, sails, etc., on a boat or ship.

apparatus for some purpose; equipment; outfit; gear: a hi-fi rig; Bring your rod and reel and all the rest of your fishing rig.

Also called drill rig. the equipment used in drilling an oil well.

any combination trucking unit in which vehicles are hooked together, as a tractor-trailer.

any kind of truck.

10.

a carriage, buckboard, sulky, or wagon together with the horse or horses that draw it.

11.

Informal. costume or dress, especially when odd or conspicuous, or when designated for a particular purpose: He looks quite nifty in a butler's rig.

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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

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Verb phrases

12.

rig down, Nautical. to place in an inactive state, stowing all lines, tackles, and other removable parts.

13.

rig up, to equip or set up for use.

Origin:
1480–90; 1930–35 for def 4; probably < Scandinavian; compare Norwegian, Swedish rigg (noun), rigga (v.)

Related forms

out·rig, verb (used with object), out·rigged, out·rig·ging.

o·ver·rigged, adjective

un·der·rigged, adjective

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World English Dictionary

rig¹ (rɪɡ)

—vb , rigs, rigging, rigged
1.	nautical to equip (a vessel, mast, etc) with (sails, rigging, etc)
2.	nautical to set up or prepare ready for use
3.	to put the components of (an aircraft, etc) into their correct positions
4.	to manipulate in a fraudulent manner, esp for profit: to rig prices; to rig an election

—n
5.	nautical the distinctive arrangement of the sails, masts, and other spars of a vessel
6.	In full: drilling rig the installation used in drilling for and exploiting natural oil and gas deposits: an oil rig
7.	apparatus or equipment; gear
8.	an amateur radio operator's transmitting and receiving set
9.	(US), (Canadian) a carriage together with one or more horses
10.	chiefly (US), (Canadian) an articulated lorry

[C15: from Scandinavian; related to Norwegian rigga to wrap]

rig² (rɪɡ)

—n
	dialect (Scot), (Northern English) a ridge or raised strip of unploughed land in a ploughed field

[a variant of ridge]

rig out

—vb (often foll by with)
1.	to equip or fit out (with): his car is rigged out with gadgets
2.	to dress or be dressed: rigged out smartly

—n
3.	informal a person's clothing or costume, esp a bizarre outfit

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Word Origin & History

rig

c.1489, originally nautical, "to fit with sails," probably from a Scand. source (cf. Dan., Norw. rigge "to equip," Swed. rigga "to rig"), though these may be from Eng. Slang meaning "to pre-arrange or tamper with results" is attested from 1938. The noun meaning "distinctive arrangement of sails, masts,

etc. on a ship" is first recorded 1822; extended to horse vehicles (1831), which led to sense of "truck, bus, etc." (1851).

Slang Dictionary

rig definition

tv.
to arrange or tamper with the results of something. : Somebody rigged the contest so no one got first prize.
n.
a large truck; an eighteen-wheeler; a large recreational vehicle. : There were three rigs sitting in the parking lot when we got there.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms

RIG
station equipment (shortwave transmission)

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"There were many vessels, like gulls, skimming over the surface of the sea, now half concealed in its troughs, their dolphin- strikers plowing the water, now tossed on the top of the billows.... Some of these vessels lagged behind, while others steadily went ahead. We narrowly watched their rig and the cut of their jibs, and how they walked the water, for there was all the difference between them that there is between living creatures. But we wondered that they should be remembering Boston and New York and Liverpool, steering for them, out there; as if the sailor might forget his peddling business on such a grand highway. They had perchance brought oranges from the Western Isles; and were they carrying back the peel? We might as well transport our old traps across the ocean of eternity. Is that but another "trading flood," with its blessed isles? Is Heaven such a harbor as the Liverpool docks?"

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