rig
- 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.
- 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.
- a carriage, buckboard, sulky, or wagon together with the horse or horses that draw it.
- 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.
- rig down, Nautical. to place in an inactive state, stowing all lines, tackles, and other removable parts.
- rig up, to equip or set up for use.
Origin of rig
Related Words for rig
machinery, equip, furnish, fix, manipulate, falsify, equipage, apparatus, paraphernalia, outfit, tackle, gear, fixtures, appoint, accouter, provision, kit, costume, attireExamples from the Web for rig
Contemporary Examples of rig
Blue Book on this rig is about $750,000, and we got it for nothing.
You do that to a certain extent with performance capture by the way you calibrate the model of Caesar—or the rig, as we call it.
In 1971, a team of Soviet scientists was drilling at the site when their rig collapsed into a cavernous pocket of natural gas.
It is the mark of a desperate party trying to rig the election results to stay in power for as long as it can.
When Colin bit, they had control of it and the rig shot fake blood out of a tube.
Historical Examples of rig
Even as he was speaking they had helped Mortimer from the rig.
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
"I'll send the rig in, t'morrow, if there's anything yuh want," he remarked.
Chip, of the Flying UB. M. Bower
I can rig up a handy horse-stall with my spare spars and the grating.
Micah ClarkeArthur Conan Doyle
Why, it's a mad thing you are doing, coming to meet me in that rig out!
A Nest of SpiesPierre Souvestre
But, as you need him, I suppose I must get my rig and driver somewhere else.
Cy Whittaker's PlaceJoseph C. Lincoln
rig
1- nautical to equip (a vessel, mast, etc) with (sails, rigging, etc)
- nautical to set up or prepare ready for use
- to put the components of (an aircraft, etc) into their correct positions
- to manipulate in a fraudulent manner, esp for profitto rig prices; to rig an election
- nautical the distinctive arrangement of the sails, masts, and other spars of a vessel
- the installation used in drilling for and exploiting natural oil and gas depositsan oil rig In full: drilling rig
- apparatus or equipment; gear
- an amateur radio operator's transmitting and receiving set
- US and Canadian a carriage together with one or more horses
- mainly US and Canadian an articulated lorry
Word Origin for rig
rig
2- Scot and Northern English dialect a ridge or raised strip of unploughed land in a ploughed field
Word Origin for rig
Word Origin and History for rig
late 15c., originally nautical, "to fit with sails," probably from a Scandinavian source (cf. Danish, Norwegian rigge "to equip," Swedish rigga "to rig, harness"), though these may be from English; perhaps ultimately from PIE *reig- "to bind." Slang meaning "to pre-arrange or tamper with results" is attested from 1938, perhaps a different word, from rig (n.) "a trick, swindle, scheme" (1775), earlier "sport, banter, ridicule" (1725), of unknown origin. Also there is rig (v.) "ransack" from 1560s, likewise of unknown origin. Related: Rigged; rigging.
"distinctive arrangement of sails, masts, etc. on a ship," 1822, from rig (v.). Extended to costume, clothing outfit (1843); horse-drawn vehicle (1831), which led to sense of "truck, bus, etc." (1851); and apparatus for well-sinking (1875).