Crossword clues for rigger
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rigger \Rig"ger\, n.
One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship.
A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery. [R.]
(Painting) A long slender, and pointed sable brush for making fine lines, etc.; -- said to be so called from its use by marine painters for drawing the lines of the rigging.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship or of a counterweight system. 2 A part of a rowing boat's equipment used to provide leverage for a rowing blade or oar around a fixed fulcrum. 3 A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery. 4 (context NZ English) A plastic bottle of beer, typically between 1 L to 2.5 L volume. 5 A long, slender, pointed sable paintbrush for making fine lines, etc.; said to be so called from its use for drawing the lines of the rigging of ships.
WordNet
n. someone who rigs ships
a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists [syn: rigger brush]
someone who works on an oil rig [syn: oil rigger]
a sailing vessel with a specified rig; "a square rigger"
Wikipedia
Rigger may refer to:
- One who attends to the rigging of a sailing ship
- Rigger (entertainment), those who tend rigging in stage performance (theater, film, concert, etc.)
- Rigger (industry), specializing in moving large/heavy objects
- Parachute rigger
- Bondage rigger, one who ties up others primarily as an art form
- One who sets up a racing shell in the sport of rowing
- Rigger, Duke Nukem's henchman from the animated series Captain Planet and the Planeteers#Eco-Villains
A rigger is a person who specializes in the lifting and moving of extremely large or heavy objects, often with the assistance of a crane or derrick.
A rigger is one who works on ropes, booms, lifts, hoists and the like for a stage production (film, theater, live music, etc.).
The term "rigger" originally referred to a person who attended to the rigging of a sailing ship. In the age of sail, trading followed seasonal patterns with ships leaving port at set times of the year to make the most of winds. When not at sea sailors would seek employment ashore. Their skill with ropes and booms found use in the theatre.
The original canvas backdrops used in the theatre moved with ropes and pulleys, being developed from techniques used for sails. It is from these roots that modern fly systems emerged. This also gave rise to the tradition in British theatres of never whistling on stage as the riggers would use the same whistled instructions on stage as they did aboard ship. A misplaced whistle could be taken as an instruction to the riggers to change the set.
The term rigger is still used for people backstage in theatres, the road crew for a live concert, conventions and trade shows, and by extension to similar jobs such as those who are responsible for fastening chain motors (like CM Lodestar) by wire rope to the structural steel of a building.
With the birth of the film industry, just as stage actors adapted their techniques to the new medium so did those back stage. The complexity of the new environment giving rise to specializations such as those in the film industry who rig scaffolding for film sets and camera rigs; also termed as a standby rigger if they are on site and 'on call' all of the time.
Usage examples of "rigger".
She would not be kept from it by Dap or by her fellow riggers or by what anyone thought of her father.
She saw Dap coming to see her at the rigger school, he the senior, she the novice.
Engine-mechanics, riggers, electricians, instrument fitters and radio mechanics swarmed all over the great four-motor aircraft.
One by one, the monks and holy men and riggers and carpenters and stonemasons and gompa abbots and mayors and bricklayers were asking soft questions of the young woman, and she was answering.
He knew a spot where crime was due - aboard the tramp steamer Zouave, captained by Jason Hilder, with Rigger Luxley, missing mobleader, on ship accompanied by a squad of killers.
TWENTY minutes later, Rigger Shoy and Jute Bantry were seated in a cozy booth in the corner of an exclusive cocktail lounge.
But there were certain persons who would believe Jute if he told them - Rigger Shoy, for one.
There seemed little doubt that the ork was a rigger, a vehicular technomancer.
He heard the light hammerblows of the outer airlock dogs disengaging: Woetjans was bringing her riggers inside.
Montemar Jukes, who Fletcher had brought aboard as a servant and promptly rated Rigger First Class.
There were sandhogs and riggers and welders and shipfitters and two circus acrobats.
So the drive riggers are Starbright employees, and the rest of the crew are Taler people.
The huge, sleek turbopump designed to bring return coolant from the heat exchanger to the number one engine had been partly dismantled by Francis and her riggers.
I would understand what the other blokes in the troop were talking about when they mentioned riggers, risers, brake lines, baselines, or flare.
Every once in a while Peleg came hobbling out of his whalebone den, roaring at the men down the hatchways, roaring up to the riggers at the mast-head, and then concluded by roaring back into his wigwam.