What is "riggers"

Usage examples of "riggers".

Five riggers were hauling on a six-block tackle, while the bosun herself knelt holding the pivot pin in place with her left hand and a heavy maul short-gripped in her right.

The riggers of the port watch had stripped and were going below to their bunks.

Daniel had been willing to lift with it—joints loosened in service, after all—but since there were a few minutes unexpectedly available, the bosun had taken five riggers out despite the rain.

That would be at least ten minutes and might be thirty, but the riggers already wore their suits with the faceplates hinged open.

Betts and Sun slapped hands in acknowledgment of a successful liftoff, and the riggers joked in the corridor.

He was watching with the bright interest of a bird but was careful not to interfere with the team of riggers preparing to go onto the hull.

The bosun tongued a control in her helmet and the cheery, four-note Riggers Aloft call rang from the PA system as the signal lights pulsed yellow.

Six more crewmen waited to follow the first watch: the initial deployment of antennas and sails employed all the riggers rather than merely the port or starboard watch.

Dasi, the team's senior man, slammed the crash bar with a gloved hand and led his riggers into the lock.

His fingers moved on the semaphore controls, directing the riggers to unpin the antennas.

The bow dorsal section of riggers, both watches, stood suited in the corridor.

In the corridor the riggers who'd come in during exit—it was possible to make the transition with crewmen on the hull, but physical and psychological disorientation made it very dangerous for them—were locking their helmets shut in obedience to Woetjans' order over the intercom.

Working in a haze of not-quite-complete matter-antimatter cancellation was unpleasant for the riggers, but the quicker Daniel was on the ground confronting the Astrogator, the better.

Woetjans would have her riggers back aboard well before the corvette had completed its forty minute orbit.

On an ordinary voyage the riggers would fix the trouble and the astrogator would compensate for the divergence during the next leg.