running rigging


nounNautical.
  1. rigging for handling sails, yards, etc. (contrasted with standing rigging).

  2. rigging for handling cargo.

Origin of running rigging

1
First recorded in 1660–70

Words Nearby 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. Kingston
  • They 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. Kingston
  • The standing and running rigging was in the most perfect order, and the sails white as snow.

    The Coral Island | R.M. Ballantyne
  • When short-handed this is very trying, as double the strength is required to make the running rigging work.

    Hurricane Hurry | W.H.G. Kingston
  • Then 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

running rigging

noun
  1. nautical the wires and ropes used to control the operations of a sailing vessel: Compare standing rigging

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