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noun

a loft or gallery in a boatbuilder's yard from which rigging can be fitted

a loft in a theatre from which scenery, etc, is raised and lowered

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Rigel, Rigel Kentaurus, -rigged, rigger, rigging, rigging loft, Riggs' disease, right, rightable, rightabout, right about face

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How to use rigging loft in a sentence

South Korean activists are already planning to loft them over the Demilitarized Zone in balloons.
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In testimony, witnesses described a lifestyle that included “a downtown loft and several luxury cars.”
The Navy SEAL Who Swindled His Brothers|Jacob Siegel|September 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We kept going up until we found ourselves in a vast Sharkarama, a huge loft with fake sharks hung from hooks everywhere.
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There were reports of rigging, fraud and the use of violence to influence voting.
Kerry Must Let the Afghan Voters Choose Their Next President|Zardasht Shams|July 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST

“People are really upset and motivated by the idea that the wealthy are rigging the game in their favor,” he said.
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They nodded at each other when they met, and the gray man showed him a little ship with rigging that took up and down.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
She should not show panic because of the mysterious noise in the loft of the abandoned Carter house.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn|Margaret Penrose
But she told them all the helpful things she could about setting up the radio paraphernalia and rigging the wires.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn|Margaret Penrose
The captain immediately went on deck, and Neptune hailed from the fore part of the rigging, "What ship?"
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil|Maria Graham
Frank climbs up the tall ladder to the loft, which is the second story of the barn, and throws down the hay.
Seven O'Clock Stories|Robert Gordon Anderson