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▪ I. rigged, a.1 [f. rig n.1] Of cattle: Having a white streak along the back. Other dialect uses are given in the Eng. Dial. Dict.
1555Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) I. 69 A browne rigged cowe. 1789Sillar Poems 118 Your Quey an' rigget Cow. 1811Aiton Agric. Ayrsh. 425 When a stripe of white run along the ridge of her back, she got the name of a rigged cow. ▪ II. † rigged, a.2 Obs.—1 (Of doubtful meaning; perh. from rig n.3)
1598Bp. Hall Sat. iv. ii. 96 The young Elephant, or two-tayl'd steere, Or the rig'd Camell, or the Fidling Frere. ▪ III. rigged, ppl. a.1|rɪgd| [f. rig v.2] 1. Naut. Equipped with rigging. (Chiefly predicative, with adverbs.)
1494Fabyan Chron. ii. xxix. 21 When he had theym newely Riggyd & vytayled. 1502–9Lett. Rich. III & Hen. VII (Rolls) I. 417 Their barges..weale and pompously rigged and adressed. 1600Holland Livy xxvi. xxxvi. 611 That the people of Rome may be..furnished of a fleete rigged and trimmed. 1610Shakes. Temp. v. i. 224 Our Ship..Is tyte, and yare, and brauely rig'd. 1671Milton Samson 200 My Vessel trusted to me from above, Gloriously rigg'd. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I. s.v. Rigging, A Ship is well Rigged, when all her Ropes are of their fit size in proportion to her Burden. 1841R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 132 The sail so carried at the mainmast of a full-rigged brig. 1879Beerbohm Patagonia 7, I seemed to behold some strangely rigged vessels lying close to me in the bay. b. As the second element in combs., denoting the kind of rig carried by a vessel.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Vergue en boute dehors, the main-boom of a sloop-rigged, or schooner-rigged vessel. 1780in Naval Chron. II. 518 They were two Spanish Xebec Ships, polacre rigged. 1799Ibid. 519 The third vessel..was a xebec latine-rigged. 1834[see fore and aft B]. 1860Merc. Mar. Mag. VII. 148 She was a two-masted vessel,..and snow-rigged. 1880[see lateen]. 2. Dressed, clothed. Also with out.
1722Ramsay Three Bonnets iii. 47 Bawsy rises, quickly dresses..: Now rigg'd [etc.]. 1757Foote Author i. Wks. 1799 I. 136 He's very young, and exceedingly well rigg'd. 1821Sporting Mag. IX. 27 Lenny showed afterwards equally well rigged-out. 1878M. A. Brown tr. Runeberg's Nadeschda 36 Prince Woldmar looks around and sees The strangely rigged-out girl again. transf.1727Philip Quarll 96 Her Husband stands in the way rigg'd in all those engaging Qualifications which did win her Affection. 3. Fitted up, esp. as an expedient or makeshift.
1932C. Isherwood Memorial i. iii. 36 The rigged-up stage was backed by sackcloth curtains. 4. Fixed up, equipped.
1935A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 97/2 Rigged up, all ready with auto, tools, pistol, machine gun, etc., for a criminal job. ▪ IV. rigged, ppl. a.2|rɪgd| [f. rig v.6] Fraudulently contrived; fictitiously enhanced in value.
1879Dickens Dict. Lond. 12/3 It..is known..as a ‘rigged sale’, consisting of articles vamped up or originally manufactured for the purpose. 1901Westm. Gaz. 10 Oct. 9/1 The natural result of..made markets, rigged shares, paid puffs in the newspapers, and all the other scandals. |