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rigged

[ UK /ɹˈɪɡd/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɪɡd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. fitted or equipped with necessary rigging (sails and shrouds and stays etc)

How To Use rigged In A Sentence

  • They could have been classed as ship-rigged sloops-of-war and were built by Thomas Fishburn in 1770 at Whitby.
  • While on the way thither she fell in with a polacre-rigged ship flying the The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)
  • She was three hundred and eighty tons burden, ship-rigged, and was equipped with a horizontal engine, placed between decks, with boilers in the hold. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • At the top end of the glen darts of sunshine poked through the billowing clouds and encouraged us to go for it and, fully rigged up in waterproofs, we were soon splashing our way up into the Lairig Eilde.
  • She was a pretty vessel: schooner-rigged, very low in the water, and -- as we found out when we took her -- of very deep draught; broad in the beam, and ` flush-decked 'fore and aft, with no raised fore or after castles. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
  • The galleon was a long slender ship of extremely low freeboard, rakish rigged as a single-master, both sails and oars being used as The Stamps of Canada
  • Four beats after curtain rises, bump downlights to full wattage; they're boom lights rigged to the top of the stage.
  • Some sailing on a friend's Soling and on a wooden, gaff-rigged boat that we've borrowed. Journal for 31 December 1999
  • The PR firm was given unrigged models and they did everything themselves. Shrek Blitz II
  • The Dutch employed fleets of full-rigged ships of relatively large tonnage, which enabled them to undercut the freight charges of their competitors by a significant margin.
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