Crossword clues for unrig
unrig
- Dismantle sail supports, e.g
- Strip of sails
- Dismantle, as a sailing vessel
- Remove the ropes
- Take down, as a Rube Goldberg machine
- Strip down ships
- Strip a schooner
- Strip a sailing vessel
- Rid of equipment
- Remove sail supports
- Remove gear from, as a ship
- Prepare to store, as a sailboat
- Prepare for dry dock
- Prepare for a dry dock
- Dismantle the sails of
- Disassemble, in a way
- (Of a boat) strip of its mast, stays etc
- Take apart, nautically
- Strip of gear, as a ship
- Strip, as a ship
- Dismantle on a ship
- Strip of tackle
- Strip a sloop
- Strip of equipment, as a ship
- Take down a derrick, etc.
- Take down the sails
- Take down sails
- Strip a ship of tackle
- Strip of a continental dress
- Remove equipment from a French doctor
- A French girl briefly stood up to strip on boat
- Dismantle collapsing ruin at midnight
- Take down stuff on ship, ruing errors
- Strip of gear, nautically
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unrig \Un*rig"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + rig.] (Naut.)
To strip of rigging; as, to unrig a ship.
--Totten.
Wiktionary
vb. (context nautical English) to remove the rigging from
Usage examples of "unrig".
Duke Unrig never arranged contacts at the places where Wally usually went.
That produced a result that Duke Unrig had always wanted to avoid - action from the cover-up crew that the big-shot had posted in the vicinity.
Seated in a garish apartment, Duke Unrig was in the best of humor as he enjoyed a late breakfast of ham and eggs.
In handling Duke Unrig, The Shadow would be merely clearing the way to the strangest campaign of his entire career.
Actually, that limousine was one that Duke Unrig had bought cheaply, a month ago.
Tonight, the big car contained four huddled lurking men: Duke Unrig and three of his gunmen.
Cliff opened the door to find a gaslit room where Duke Unrig lay stretched on a rickety cot.
On the other hand, although the people of Kutali were a little less agitated than they had been at first, there were still continual processions to the churches, and Jack hesitated to give the word to unrig the ropeway.
Dietrich and Hong are to surrender their firearms to you, unrig the central trunk elevator, then report to their action stations.
For this purpose I unrigged the air-pump apparatus, and almost, but not quite, closed the valve, leaving an aperture about the twentieth part of an inch in diameter.
We left Malacca at seven this morning in the small, unseaworthy, untrustworthy, unrigged steam-launch Moosmee, and after crawling for some hours at a speed of about five miles an hour along brown and yellow shores with a broad, dark belt of palms above them, we left the waveless, burning sea behind, and after a few miles of tortuous steaming through the mangrove swamps of the Linggi river, landed here to wait for sufficient water for the rest of our journey.
In less threatening weather he would have left the two yards on the mast, but, foreseeing that he would probably be obliged to level that mast, and perhaps even to lay it down upon the deck, he unrigged the two yards and sent them to the deck.
Porto Ferrajo is celebrated among the mariners of the Mediterranean, and, should the Frenchman venture within reach of your shot, I expect to see him unrigged faster than if he were in a dock-yard.
I finally threw aside the gum-elastic chamber and unrigged it from around the car.
They had had a bad experience with it on the estate of Citizen Purple, but now they had the chance to play it as it should be played, unrigged, for fun instead of for life.