Rig

/ɹɪɡ/ · noun

Meaning

(nautical) The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft..

Definitions by Sense

1. (nautical) The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
2. Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
3. (US) A large truck, especially a semi-trailer truck.
4. The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
5. (informal) A costume or an outfit.
6. (slang, computing) A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.
7. An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
8. (slang) Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.

Example Sentences

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

We used a ground-level rig to safely learn how to tile a gable roof.

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

"Big Joe's the name," an' I told him mine / He said: "The name of my rig is Phantom 309."

There's armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps And rigs of every size. Yeah, them chicken coops was full o'bears And choppers filled the skies.

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

When I saw a special version of Quake running on Voodoo hardware, I knew I would be forking out quite a bit of money on my gaming rig.

[…] does not know how to pick up the liquid from the cooker, and he asks someone else to use his rig to put his part in his rig.

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Word Forms

• rigs
• rigging
• rigged

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