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rigged

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Rigged: The True Story of a Wall Street Novice who Changed the World of Oil Forever is a book by author Ben Mezrich . The book recounts the story of John D'Agostino , whom the book renames David Russo. The hardback of the book was number 10 on the New York ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rig \Rig\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rigged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Rigging .] [Norweg. rigga to bind, particularly, to wrap round, rig; cf. AS. wr[=i]han to cover.] To furnish with apparatus or gear; to fit with tackling. To dress; to equip; to clothe, especially ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together [syn: trailer truck , tractor trailer , trucking rig , articulated lorry , semi ] formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 (''for a trial, election, or competition'') pre-arranged and fixed so that the winner or outcome is decided in advance 2 (context nautical English) Having the rigging up v (en-pastrig)

Usage examples of rigged.

Rigged to an ECUan environmental-control unitthat Rhyme could manipulate with his one working finger, the device used a rubber armature to turn pages of books.

He bet that Algul Siento had been what his Dad had claimed America would become in time, a cashless society, and that old Seeberg was rigged so you only had to push the buttons in order to start the music.

We found a good anchor point for our block and tackle and while Chubby rigged it, I left him and floated back to the nearest cabin.

And she glimpsed the woman Dap had rigged with, Deira, and his attraction and growing intimacy with her.

It would be some minutes before the apparent confusion resolved itself into a trim, severe pattern, a clean sweep fore and aft, the guns cast loose, their crews standing by them, every man at his station, sentries at the hatchways, damp fearnought screens rigged over the magazines, wet sand strewn over the decks.

Surprise bore down, therefore, under her fighting-sails, with her master at the con, her guns run out, powder-boys sitting well behind them on their leather cartridge-cases, shot-garlands full, splinter-netting rigged, scuttle-butts all along, decks damped and sanded, and wet fearnought screens over the hatches leading to the magazine far below, where the gunner sat among his little deadly kegs.

Instead, the fellow who raided the Hilo Club could have been a crook rigged up like The Shadow.

He had rigged the bridge for dive, with the exception of latching up the final clamshell and shutting the upper hatch to the bridge-access tunnel.

Temar got up from his seat beside the lateen rigged aft-mast and stretched his cramped shoulders, half inclined to shed his stout hide jerkin in the strengthening sunshine.

So we took the processors and RAMs out of some old Pentiums, rigged up some optical disks with movement repertoires on them, and stuck her all over with myoelectric connections.

One of those balk-line jobs with a freak tent and half a dozen rube games rigged to pay once in ten thousand tries, a couple of animals, maybe a geek, a cotton candy bowl, and a nautch tent with half a dozen worn-over hags.

This seemed akin to him, to that of joining the carnivals that come to town at the oddest times, such as the week before Easter Sunday, sinister in themselves, extolling forth the weirdness of midway rigged games and nudger machines.

The moon was now sufficiently high to cast its soft light on the whole of the glittering basin, and a forest composed of lateen yards, of the slender masts of polaccas, and of the more massive and heavy hamper of regularly rigged ships, was to be seen rising above the tranquil element.

Several neighbors skated on the lake to music from the set of outdoor speakers Popi had rigged up.

Of the three masts the forward was rigged with squaresail and raffee, the other two carried fore-and-aft rig--a bit of a hybrid schooner.