rigging loft

noun

1. a loft or gallery in a boatbuilder's yard from which rigging can be fitted
2. a loft in a theatre from which scenery, etc, is raised and lowered

Example Sentences

The roof of the stage over the rigging loft is a huge skylight, opened or closed from the stage.

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America's newest and most modern fireproof playhouse was not going to disappear before an insignificant fire in the rigging loft.

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I love to see my rigging-loft well stocked with goods, almost as much as to see it full of dancers.

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The gridiron is also called the rigging-loft on account of the fact that the scenes are “rigged up” by ropes from this floor.

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Each of the five ropes passes over a pulley on the gridiron, or rigging-loft.

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