Word Meanings - CAT-RIGGED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Rigged like a catboat.

Related words: (words related to CAT-RIGGED)

• RIGGLE
  See WRIGGLE
• RIGGING
  DRess; tackle; especially , the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc. See Illustr. of Ship and Sails. Running rigging , all those ropes used in bracing the yards,
• CATBOAT
  A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a graff and long boom. See Illustration in Appendix.
• RIGGER
  1. One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship. 2. A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
• RIGGISH
  Like a rig or wanton. "Riggish and unmaidenly." Bp. Hall.
• SPRIGGED
  Having sprigs.
• SHIP-RIGGED
  Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails.
• CAT-RIGGED
  Rigged like a catboat.
• SQUARE-RIGGED
  Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.
• PRIGGERY
  Priggism.
• THIMBLERIGGER
  One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.
• OUTRIGGER
  1. Any spar or projecting timber run out for temporary use, as from a ship's mast, to hold a rope or a sail extended, or from a building, to support hoisting teckle. A projecting support for a rowlock, extended from the side of a boat. A boat thus
• OVERRIGGED
  Having too much rigging.
• SCRIGGLE
  To wriggle.
• FRIGG; FRIGGA
  The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya.
• WRIGGLE
  To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions, like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about. Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted. Swift.
• WRIGGLER
  One who, or that which, wriggles. Cowper.
• PRIGGISM
  1. The quality or state of being priggish; the manners of a prig. Ed. Rev. 2. Roguery; thievery. Fielding.
• SPRIGGY
  Full of sprigs or small branches.
• YAWL-RIGGED
  Having two masts with fore-and-aft sails, but differing from a schooner in that the after mast is very small, and stepped as far aft as possible. See Illustration in Appendix.
• JURY-RIGGED
  Rigged for temporary service. See Jury, a.