Rigger

//ˈɹɪɡə(ɹ)// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who rigs or dresses; as:; One whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship or of a counterweight system.

    "So far there was not a hitch. The workpeople, to be sure — riggers and what not — were most annoyingly slow; but time cured that. It was the crew that troubled me."

  2. 2
    Ellipsis of outrigger. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
  3. 3
    a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists wordnet
  4. 4
    One who rigs or dresses; as:; One whose occupation is to lift and move large and heavy objects (such as industrial machinery) with the help of cables, hoists, and other equipment.

    "What if the rigger (the person who anchors the grids to the building ceiling) mishangs a single cable?"

  5. 5
    a sailing vessel with a specified rig wordnet
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  1. 6
    One who rigs or dresses; as:; One whose occupation is to outfit a computer model with controls for animation.

    "It is common that after the rig is created an animator asks the rigger to create new controls, because the character needs to support new poses or simply needs to look better."

  2. 7
    someone who rigs ships wordnet
  3. 8
    A worker on an oil rig.
  4. 9
    someone who works on an oil rig wordnet
  5. 10
    One who rigs or manipulates (an election, etc).

    "The real riggers of electoral boundaries in New South Wales were those who got loose after 1965. When the boys from George Street and Ash Street got loose there was a majority in the Parliament. That is when there was a redistribution […]"

  6. 11
    A part of a rowing boat's equipment used to provide leverage for a rowing blade or oar around a fixed fulcrum.
  7. 12
    A ship with a certain type of rigging. in-compounds
  8. 13
    A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
  9. 14
    A plastic bottle of beer, typically between 1 L to 2.5 L volume. New-Zealand
  10. 15
    A long, slender, pointed sable paintbrush for making fine lines, etc.; said to be so called from its use for drawing the lines of the rigging of ships.
  11. 16
    A person who applies functional or artistic rope bondage to another person's body.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From rig + -er.

Etymology 2

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