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oil rig

A structure and associated machinery used in drilling for oil or gas it is usually in the form of a tower Called also drilling rig

Snow

A square rigged vessel differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast on which a large trysail is hoisted

Riggish

Like a rig or wanton

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outrigged

rigged with a structure projecting from or over the side of a boat for various purposes having an outrigger to prevent capsizing or to support an oarlock or to help secure a mast etc See outrigger

Gunter rig

A topmast arranged with metal bands so that it will readily slide up and down the lower mast

Footrope

The rope rigged below a yard upon which men stand when reefing or furling formerly called a horse

Schooner

Originally a small sharp built vessel with two masts and fore and aft rig Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner About 1840 longer vessels with three...

Barkentine

A threemasted vessel having the foremast square rigged and the others schooner rigged Spelled also barquentine barkantine etc See Illust in Append

Cordage

Ropes or cords collectively hence anything made of rope or cord as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes

Lorcha

light vessel used on the coast of China having the hull built on a European model and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk

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