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Meanings of rigger in English
Catalan
maquinista Person who works on ropes, booms, lifts, hoists, etc. for stage, film, or television.
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Spanish
aparejador Usage of rigger in English
1
But no thimble-rigger had a keener eye for the cents than Fawcett.
2
He was an old square rigger himself in the Civil War.
3
The blacksmith, the rigger, the calker, took their pay in shares.
4
No, too many calories for me, right now, got to watch me rigger.
5
Each canoe had a long out-rigger, to prevent them from oversetting.
6
Only experience will teach the rigger what tension to employ.
7
He worked as chief rigger on the Eiger for the Imax film The Alps.
8
I wrote about my WW2 work as a parachute rigger.
9
Removed to Charleston, S.C., in 1851, worked as a rigger, leading a sea-faring life.
10
Three poles rose from the garden's center, like the masts on a square rigger.
11
To remedy this, the bowsprit has been devised, chiefly as an out-rigger for the fore-stay.
12
Leary, 38, worked as a rigger and film stuntman.
13
Mr. Hawkins: I ask the other be stricken out, that the rigger was sent up there.
14
So he might be working ashore as a rigger, or on small boats of some kind.
15
From the man's callused hands, and his way with cordage, Daniel took him for a rigger.
16
They are of interest to designers, but this is written for the practical pilot and rigger.
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