running rigging
rigging for handling sails, yards, etc. (contrasted with standing rigging).
rigging for handling cargo.
Origin of running rigging
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How to use running rigging in a sentence
Hands were sent aloft to fish the foreyard, and to knot and splice the most important parts of the running rigging.
The Missing Ship | W. H. G. KingstonThey also cut the standing and running rigging, which would effectually prevent her from making sail for a long time to come.
Peter the Whaler | W.H.G. KingstonThe standing and running rigging was in the most perfect order, and the sails white as snow.
The Coral Island | R.M. BallantyneWhen short-handed this is very trying, as double the strength is required to make the running rigging work.
Hurricane Hurry | W.H.G. KingstonThen we set it up as best we might with the running rigging, and so had a mightily unhandy three-cornered sail of doubled canvas.
A Sea Queen's Sailing | Charles Whistler
British Dictionary definitions for running rigging
nautical the wires and ropes used to control the operations of a sailing vessel: Compare standing rigging
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