Rigging - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Rigged for temporary service done or made using whatever materials are available makeshift as the survivors used jury rigged fishing gear See Jury a...
Cat rigged
Rigged like a catboat...
Jury rig
to rig for temporary service to construct flimsily and in makeshift fashion See Jury a...
lateen rig
the rig on a sailing vessel with a lateen sail...
lateen rigged
rigged with a triangular lateen sail...
marconi rig
A rig of triangular sails for a yacht...
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...
Ship rigged
Rigged like a ship that is having three masts each with square sails...
Rigging the market
Rigging the market, means the practice of artificially inflating stock prices, by a series of bids, so that the demand for those stocks appears to be high and investors will therefore be entitled into buying the stocks, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1322....
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 masts fore and aft rigged came into use and since that time vessels with four masts and even with six masts so rigged are built Schooners with more than two masts are designated three masted schooners four masted schooners etc See Illustration in Appendix...
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