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Meanings of standing rigging in English
Ship element; comprises the fixed lines, wires, or rods, which support each mast or bowsprit on a sailing vessel and reinforce those spars against wind loads transferred from the sails.
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Usage of standing rigging in English
1
The wind was whining very strangely through the sloop's standing rigging.
2
The standing rigging on the sailboats quivered in a light breeze.
3
No time was lost in setting up the standing rigging.
4
Both our topsail-yards were wounded, and several braces and much of our standing rigging shot through.
5
Our standing rigging was of grass, and wiry enough to cut even hands that were used to it.
6
New standing rigging was fitted to the main-mast, and a set made from the best of the old, for the fore-mast.
7
The standing rigging was first cut through, then that on the other side, when a few strokes sent the mast overboard.
8
The standing rigging are the bones and gristle; the running gear the veins in which her life circulates; and the blocks the joints.
9
The lower masts were said to be unsound; the standing rigging was much worn; and, in some places, even the bulwarks were quite rotten.
10
London edition: he sat with it on his knees staring at the white sunlit main-deck barred with the black shadows of the standing rigging.
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U.S. edition: he sat with it on his knees staring at the white sunlit main-deck barred with the white shadows of the standing rigging.
12
A better commander I'd never desire to serve; and who knows but I may help to set up thy standing rigging in another world?
13
Her standing rigging was so out of order that it allowed play to the masts, which were violently shaken at every roll of the sea.
14
Except a little of the standing rigging cut, a few shins broken, and a complete ducking received by all the passengers, no damage had occurred.
15
'None of your standing rigging shot away!' said he.