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单词 monkey-rigged
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monkey-rigged
monkey-rigged adj. Nautical (now historical) partially rigged; rigged with monkey-spars; also figurative.
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1836 Knickerbocker Aug. 208 ‘You d—d monkey-rigged villain’, said old Timberheads, going within a few paces of the animal, ‘we'll have a longer face than that on you, 'fore we're done with you.’
1882 Daily Tel. 12 Sept. 2/1 Most of the steamers nowadays are monkey-rigged.
1936 Ships & Ship Models 5 286/1 Monkey rigged was a sailing ship whose spars were inadequate, or which had been cut down aloft.
1993 W. Ellis Lone Star & Ghost Ship Pirates iii. 25 Some of their words were foreign to them, as when they spoke of the ‘slop chest’ and ‘monkey-rigged’ sailors.
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