unrig
Americanverb (used with object)
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to strip of rigging, as a ship.
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to strip of equipment.
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Chiefly British Dialect. to undress.
verb
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(tr) to strip (a vessel) of standing and running rigging
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archaic to undress (someone or oneself)
Etymology
Origin of unrig
Example Sentences
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They must form a unified coalition of people of all races, genders, sexualities and classes, and band together to unrig the system.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2020
“So the question is, how do we unrig this system?” says Lawrence, who clearly doesn’t just play a superhero on the big screen.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2019
To dismantle a ship of her standing and running rigging.—To unrig the capstan is to take out the bars.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
I’m goin’ to unrig the dogs an’ grub ’em.
From The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke by London, Jack
A small rope serving to unrig the lower top-gallant yard-arm of its lift and brace, when in the act of sending it down on deck.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
A new word game, carefully unrigged, begins under the guidance of Comedian Jan Murray.
From Time Magazine Archive
Get live baits, such as pilchards, herring or goggle-eyes before heading offshore, and keep a few fresh, unrigged ballyhoo in the cooler.
From Time Magazine Archive
President Arturo Illia, a sometime physician, held an unrigged vote in the steaming, depressed northern province of Jujuy and was all but wiped off the slate.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the 20th of March, having sprung the trussle trees of the main-top-mast, we struck and unrigged them, and fitted new ones.
From An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by Hunter, John
Davis at once harangued the soldiers, and persuaded many to join him, and those who resisted he sent on board the sloop, which he first unrigged.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter
Emily Bazelon: You talk about breaking up corporate power as a way of unrigging the economy, making people feel a sense of ownership.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
Nor are taxes the only instrument available for unrigging markets to make them more competitive and equitable.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2019
“I’m obsessed with this idea — not just of unrigging it but actually fixing it.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2019
Cargo is stowed and completed; the stevedores are unrigging their gear when we reach the ship.
From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)
Notwithstanding the state of the ice, however, we did not remain idle on the 8th, all hands being employed in unrigging the Fury, and landing all her spars, sails, booms, boats, and other top-weight.
From Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage by Morley, Henry
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