accouterments, becket, complot, duffel, foreroyal backstay, harbor gasket, maintainer, outhaul, roping, stick, web of intrigue
Definitionn. gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails
Last update: July 12, 2015
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Rigging of the ship broke due to friction. [Please select]
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At the base of the mainmast, full beneath the doubloon and the flame, the Parsee was kneeling in Ahab's front, but with his head bowed away from him; while near by, from the arched and overhanging rigging, where they had just been engaged securing a spar, a number of the seamen, arrested by the glare, now cohered together, and hung pendulous, like a knot of numbed wasps from a drooping, orchard twig. [Please select]
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I had already made my selection, when suddenly a voice called out from the rigging, 'Banzai.' [Please select]
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The wheel still stood, but no one was at it, nor could any human form be discerned on deck or in rigging. [Please select]
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Seaward lay a fleet of noble ships with their long lines of port-holes, their lofty masts, and network of rigging. [Please select]
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Half the ships were partly or wholly dismasted, the rigging was cut to pieces, and the sails were riddled with balls. [Please select]
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As it was, the men were not out of the rigging when the squall struck us. [Please select]
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It was very different from being high up on a ship's deck, or in her rigging. [Please select]
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"Very good, sir," replied the lieutenant, springing into the main rigging and rapidly ascending to the crosstrees, glass in hand. [Please select]
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These things had been removed, with her sails and as much of the wire rigging as would not imperil the safety of the masts. [Please select]
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Humboldt states that he saw a swallow alight on the rigging of his vessel when it was one hundred and twenty miles from land. [Please select]
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