Meanings of lower rigging in English

The boat's davits and the dead-eyes of the lower rigging are all inside the bulwarks.

Her masts and lower rigging were standing, though the topmasts had gone over the side.

Her main-yard had lost one yard-arm, and her lower rigging and sides were covered with wreck.

The soot is brushed from the lower rigging.

All the hamper came down, and began to thresh against the larboard side of the lower rigging.

The whole deck and the lower rigging were alive with blacks shouting, gesticulating, acting more like lunatics than sane beings.

We were fitting some new lower rigging, and he hung about, approving, suggesting, giving me advice in his old manner.

The hatches were all battened down, and many of the crew had lashed themselves to the lower rigging as preferable now to the deck.

The larger ships snaked down the rigging, while the gunboats came up their lower rigging, carrying it in and securing it close to the mast.

The rolling tackles are got ready for the lower yards, and the master, accompanied by the gunner's mate, inspects the lanyards of the lower rigging.

"Bellmen up above, Mr. Granby," Laurence ordered; the crew of the lower rigging quickly came scrambling up onto Temeraire's back.

"Trouble enough, though, Bill, when we get in," replied another, gruffly; "new lower rigging to parcel and sarve, and every block to turn in afresh."