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unˈrig, v.
[un-2 4.]
1. trans. To divest (a ship) of its rigging (both standing and running).
1579–80North Plutarch (1595) 541 He vnrigged and bestowed his ships in docks. 1615Britain's Buss in Arber Garner III. 632 That the other two weeks be also spent..in unrigging and laying up the Buss. 1667Lond. Gaz. No. 169/4 They were constrained to Unrigg her, and to take down her Topmast. 1720De Foe Capt. Singleton xiv. (1840) 240 We unrigged our top-masts. 1768Ann. Reg., Chron. 106/1 Some sailors began to unrig the ships. 1806A. Duncan Nelson 124 A broadside..nearly unrigged the Foudroyant. 1820Scoresby Acc. Arct. Reg. II. 451 It would be necessary first to discharge the cargo, and to unrig the ship.
b. absol. To remove or take down rigging.
a1647Pett in Archaeologia (1796) XII. 227 Friday the 16th, we unrigged, and shot the bridge. 1799Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (1845) III. 238 Malta then was half-starving, and the Ships had unrigged. 1897tr. Nansen's Farthest North II. vii. 327 We..rigged up mast and sail. But..we were soon obliged to unrig, and take to paddling.
c. In pres. pple. = Being unrigged.
1673Lond. Gaz. No. 773/4 The other, mounted with 24 Guns, is now unrigging. 1810Naval Chron. XXIII. 121 A small frigate unrigging.
d. trans. (See quot.)
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Dégarnir le cabestan, to unrig the Capstern, by taking off the voyol, and unshipping the bars.
2. transf. To strip of clothes; to undress.
1591Lyly Endym. iii. iii, Vnrigge mee. Hey ho! 1693Dryden's Juvenal xiv. (1697) 367 The Shrine was..lin'd with a strong Guard of Souldiers, who had an Eye to their God..lest he should be stoln, or unrigg'd. 1723Pres. St. Russia I. 162 The French Gentlewoman,..whom they had almost unrigged, withal telling the Men that they had stript first. 1793Wolcot (P. Pindar) Ep. to the Pope 132 Out with her ear-rings and the Dame unrig. 1820Scott Monast. xvi, He secured my spare doublet..—I was enforced to beat a retreat before I was altogether unrigged. 1880–in Shropshire and Yks. use (Eng. Dial. Dict.).
absol.1693Congreve Old Bach. v. i, Bell. I wou'd unrig. Setter. I attend you, Sir. 1865Mrs. Whitney Gayworthys v, Gabriel..fibbed again when he said he ‘didn't feel much like rigging up for a party;’ which had been true but for the last five minutes since he unrigged.
b. To unharness.
1690Lond. Gaz. No. 2552/3 The Sailors went ashore and unrigged his Horse. 1881A. J. Duffield Don Quixote II. 575 The express command of his master that..Rozinante should not be unrigged. |