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rign.1

Brit. /rɪɡ/, U.S. /rɪɡ/, Scottish English /rɪɡ/, Irish English /rɪɡ/
Forms: Middle English ryg, Middle English rygg, Middle English 1600s rigg, Middle English–1500s rige, Middle English–1500s ryge, Middle English–1500s rygge, Middle English–1600s rigge, Middle English–1700s rig; English regional 1700s– rigg, 1800s rigge, 1800s– rig; Scottish pre-1700 reg, pre-1700 reig, pre-1700 rigge, pre-1700 righe, pre-1700 ryg, pre-1700 ryge, pre-1700 rygg, pre-1700 rygge, pre-1700 1700s rige, pre-1700 1700s– rig, pre-1700 1700s– rigg, 1800s rieg (Shetland), 1900s– reeg (Caithness); Irish English 1800s– rig.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: ridge n.1
Etymology: Northern and Scots variant of ridge n.1 (see discussion at that entry), probably partly after and partly directly < the early Scandinavian cognate. See note at ridge n.1 on the division of material between the two entries.The element rig , rigg is attested earlier in place names (in senses 6a and 7), as Rigbi, Lancashire (1086; now Ribby), Grarig, Westmorland (c1165; now Grayrigg), Gret rigesmedue (field name), Roxburghshire (c1170), Rygtune, West Riding, Yorkshire (1172; 1086 as Riston; now East Rigton), Brunrig, Cumberland (c1180; now Brownrigg), Todholerig (field name), Lanarkshire (a1182), Mosiburnerig (field name), East Lothian (1195–6), Hesilrig, Lancashire (c1200; now Hazelrigg), etc., although some of these examples probably reflect the early Scandinavian cognate rather than the English word (it is often impossible to distinguish between the two); see further M. Gelling & A. Cole Landscape of Place-names (2000) 190.
Now Scottish, English regional (chiefly northern and midlands), and Irish English.
I. Senses relating to people and animals.
1.
a. The back or spine of a person or animal.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > [noun]
ridgeeOE
backc1000
rigc1300
chinec1475
rigginga1522
posteriority?1533
rigback1591
backward1636
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 1775 (MED) Bernard stirt up, þat was ful big, And caste a brinie up-on his rig.
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xlix. 18 Þou for-soþe hatedest discipline and þou kest my wordes by-hynde rygge.
a1425 (c1333–52) L. Minot Poems (1914) 23 Ilk Inglis man on oþers rig Ouer þat water er þai went.
a1500 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Trin. Dublin) 775* (MED) Som þar riggez owt rytte & som þar ribbez rent.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. xv. 104 His taill, that on hys ryg befor tymes lay, Vnder hys waymb [he] lattis fall.
1581–2 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 162 That all flescheris..present their haill fleschis to the mercat haill oncuttit in the rig or ony vther part.
1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? 46 The like Tale there is of a Good-wife, who being found by her husband in bed with her Neighbour; told him, that she did it for love of him,..to know whether other men had a stone at rigge, as he had, which made her suspect him for a Monster.
c1650 in D. Laing Var. Pieces Fugitive Sc. Poetry (1853) 2nd Ser. xxvi. 3/2 Oh! that I could speake Scotch,..I would rime out runges, and then I'd bange'um, His ribbes, and rigge [etc.].
1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green iii. 27 To try the Pith o's Rigg and Reins, They gart him cadge this Pack.
1769 Caledonian Mercury 3 May About Forty Ewes, tarred on the near side of the rig, or the far haunch.
1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands 507 The rig or back-bone of cod or ling, which had been separated in the process of curing.
1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 416 Went soss on his rig ont' roading.
1889 M. Peacock Taales fra Linkisheere 59 If I'd wool upo' my rig, saame as sheep hes.
1971 A. Mitchell & S. Waddell Teach thissen Tyke (at cited word) As ter ever ugged a poak up a stee till thi rig warked?
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 245/2 Rig, spine, backbone.
†b. The fleece of a sheep's back; a pelt or hide taken from the back of an animal. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > body and parts of > fleece > on particular parts of the body
ridgea1325
rig1406
wam-lock1483
gare1542
hawslock1725
point1871
1406–7 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 55 (MED) [To Steven Welham for 10] riggis of fine grey [price, 4 d. the piece for fur of the Mayor's hat and for making the same, 4 s.].
1470–1 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 183 (MED) j togam de cremysyn penulatam cum gray rygges.
II. Senses relating to objects.
2. English regional (northern and midlands). The uppermost part of a roof, haystack, etc.; spec. the horizontal edge or line in which the two sloping sides of a roof meet. Also: the horizontal wooden beam that runs the length of this ridge.Recorded earliest in rig-tile n. at Compounds.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > ridge
ridgeOE
rig1327
ridging1458
rigging1503
fust1679
fastigium1706
ridgeline1730
roof ridge1771
1327 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1952) xv. 232 [At York] gotertyles [were six a penny, when] riggetille [were four a penny].
1415 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 35 (MED) In lx rygtiell emptis de eodem Willelmo, 20 d.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Kii/1 Ye Rig of a house, culmen.
1641 H. Best Rural Econ. Yorks. (1857) 145 They come to morter the rigge of an howse.
a1864 J. Clare in J. L. Cherry Life & Remains J. Clare (1873) 215 The sparrow on the cottage rig.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Rig, Rig-balk, Rig-piece, or Rig-tree, the ridge-beam of a roof.
1889 M. Peacock Taales fra Linkisheere 142 Jumps fra hay-stack rig upo' waggon-shaade.
1924 J. H. Wilkinson Leeds Dial. Gloss. & Lore (at cited word) The ridge of the roof is often called the ‘rig’.
1970 H. Orton & M. V. Barry Surv. Eng. Dial. II. ii. 456 Q[uestion]. What do you call this?.. [Derbyshire] Rigg.
3. The centre line of a piece of fabric, along which it is folded; the fold in cloth, wool, etc., as opposed to the open edge. Now English regional (Yorkshire).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven > centre line of
rig1469
1469 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1469/21 It is thocht expedient that in tyme cummyn all wolin clatht be met be the rig and nocht be the selwich.
1667 in M. B. Johnston Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court Deeds (1939) I. 117 That all lining cloath be taiken up be the selvedge and not be the rigg and so to be put to the mercat.
1686 G. Mackenzie Observ. Acts Parl. 68 By this Act all Woolen Cloath is to be met by the Rig, and not by the Selvedge, but by the 43 Act 1 Par. Ch. 2. Linen Cloath is ordain'd to be taken up by the Selvedge, and not by the Rig.
1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood Gloss. s.v. When cloth is folded, or doubled up, and cuttled, the two extremities are called respectively the ‘rig’ and the ‘list’.
1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 104/1 Rigg, the ridge made in knitting, or of a seam.
†4. The shoulder of an arrowhead. Obsolete. rare.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] > head of arrow > shoulder of
rig1545
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 32 To drawe..alwayes after one fashion vntil you come to the rig or shouldring of ye head [of the shaft], is best.
5. A rib in a knitted sock or stocking. Earliest and chiefly in rig and fur n. at Phrases.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and feet > [noun] > stocking > parts of > other
shanka1547
heelc1571
heeling1591
stocking-sole1607
scogger1615
calfa1658
stocking top1664
seama1825
rig1838
ladder-stop1931
1764 Caledonian Mercury 24 Oct. 519 He had on rig'd and fur'd blue stockings.]
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Rig and Fur, a phrase used to denote ribbed stockings.
1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms Rig,..a rib in a stocking.
1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Rigg,..the ridge, edge, or back of any object, as of..the raised stripe in a knitted stocking, &c.
1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 232/2 Rig(g), the ribbing of a knitted stocking.
III. Senses relating to land.
6. Agriculture.
a. A raised strip of arable land sloping gradually towards furrows on either side, usually one of a series into which a field is divided: (in early use) often bounded by patches of uncultivated land, (in later use) produced by ploughing up and down alternately. In Scottish use frequently as part of a runrig system (see runrig n. 2); also in rig and rundale. Cf. ridge and furrow at ridge n.1 5d.corn-, harvest-, lea-rig, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > broken land > arable or ploughed land > divisions of ploughed land
ridgeOE
butt1304
landc1400
rig1428
sheth1431
shed1473
stitch1493
loon1611
furlong1660
size-land1744
slit1775
kench1799
stimpart1896
1428 in C. Innes Liber Sancte Marie de Melros (1837) 521 Þai couth part it no rychtar na hym to hafe þe tane halfe & hym þe toþer ryndale be four rygges & four.
c1450 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Bodl. Add.) i. l. 1151 (MED) Lete se the litel plough, the large also, The rigges [v.r. londes] forto enhance.
1468 in Descriptive Catal. Anc. Deeds (1902) IV. 343 John Copuldyk of Haryngton [Linconshire] squyer eschaunged with Thomas Kyme of Langton ij ryges ligyng in the east fyld of Langton.
c1490 in E. Beveridge Burgh Rec. Dunfermline (1917) flyleaf And ij ryggis to the said Dauid.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. xiv. 96 Quhair thow thi riggis telis for to saw.
1567 in H. L. Gray Eng. Field Syst. (1915) vi. 208 [Once] every tenant had one rige, then the first did begyn to have his a ryge for his lot agayne, and so by rygge and ryge it was in every place devidit amonge them.
1573 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlii. 729 Quhidder were it better..Till labour ane of them onlie,..Or in ilk steding teill ane Rig.
1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 69 Thistles with Corn grow on the Riggs, And Rogues may lurk among the Whiggs.
1683 in Sc. Hist. Rev. (1920) 17 19 His corns lyeing rigg in rendall with uther mens, and not planked.
1759 I. Fletcher Diary 24 Mar. (1994) 62 Sett out the riggs in Middle Close for ploughing.
1786 R. Burns Rigs o' Barley in Poems & Songs (1968) I. 14 I kiss'd her owre and owre again, Amang the rigs o' barley.
1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VII. 398 [Shetland] The small farms..are parcelled out in discontiguous plots and run-rigg, termed here rigg and rendal.
1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 7 265 Dibbled in rigs and furrows like beans and potatoes.
1834 Penny Cycl. II. 224/1 Ploughing..in lands or stitches, as they are called in England, and, in Scotland, riggs.
1881 R. D. Blackmore Christowell (1882) xxxiii Mrs. Sage was glad indeed to see Betty Cork come up the rigs.
1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song iii. 194 There was Ewan with the horses, ploughing his first rig, bent over the shafts.
1975 Trans. Inst. Brit. Geogr. No. 64. 29 In addition to ‘runrig’ itself, one has ‘run-dale’, ‘rin-dale’, ‘rendal’, ‘rig’ and ‘rennal’, ‘run-ridge’, ‘run-shade’ and ‘stuck-run-ways’.
1999 Scotsman (Nexis) 16 Aug. 9 I fork off the road at Kirkhouse and head up into the rolling muirs and rigs and laws that separate the valleys of the Tweed and the Yarrow.
b. A measure of land equivalent to the size of this, varying according to locality; (in plural) the arable land belonging to one farm or proprietor. Also: a quantity of a crop that has grown, or may be grown, on a rig.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > other units of land measure
wandalec1150
wista1200
landc1400
ridge1439
peck1442
scrophec1450
buttc1460
rig1485
mark1488
stick1531
farthingdeal1543
plough-gang1548
quarterland1563
ploughgate1565
last1576
wand1596
ox-skin1610
garbred1621
plank1631
nooka1634
buttal1635
farthinga1640
rick1641
familia1676
rhandir1688
setiera1690
worthine1701
fierding1768
whip-land1811
rai1933
1485 in J. Robertson Liber Collegii Glasguensis (1846) 196 A rige of land..of sumtymme Johnne of Chalmer.
1509 in J. S. Clouston Rec. Earldom of Orkney (1914) 85 And as twiching the debait of ane ryg of out braik callit the ryg of the gait.
1541 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 59 William Malcome protestit that he hes rycht to ane rig of land liand on the vast syid of Merevall.
1589 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 167 I give to..my servantt, thre buttes or rigges of land.
1614 Edinb. Test. XLVIII. 172 The rig of beir to be sawin vpone the rig of the tenement now occupyit..be [etc.].
1644 S. Rutherford Due Right of Presbyteries iv. 212 A seale of a Prince and State, as it is such, conferreth not an acre or rigge of land.
1681 Sc. Acts, Chas. II (1814) VIII. 295 Other two Riggs of land thereof lyand contigue in the field called the Gallowbank.
1720 A. Ramsay Rise & Fall of Stocks 51 Some lords and lairds sell'd riggs and castles.
1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) II. 122 Woods and parks And castles and riggs.
1792 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum IV. 377 Gear will buy me rigs o' land.
1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xix. 289 I now wish..I could have left Rose the auld hurley-house, and the riggs belanging to it. View more context for this quotation
1822 A. Peterkin Notes Orkney & Zetland App. 32 One man having gripped half a rig of his neighbour's land.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 May 1/2 A cottar..paying perhaps five or ten shillings to the crofter for the use of a ‘rig’ or two of potatoes.
1998 S. Glover Bondagers i. 38 I remember my mother and her neighbour each had a rig of corn on the village allotment.
c. Scottish. A team of reapers, spec. a team of three assigned to reap a rig at harvest time. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > reaper or mower > reapers of ridge
rig1597
1597 in Kirkcudbright Town Council Rec. (1939) I. 352 Williame Dunvyddie..to pey to Williame McGhie xxxiij s. and vj riggis scheiraris and ane bandisman.
1647 Earl of Galloway's Family Papers 11 Aug. The said William to furnish yeirlie thrie rigs of scheirers and ane bandster.
c1690 in Trans. E. Lothian Antiquarian & Field Naturalists' Soc. (1948) 4 32 The nint two riggs containing four shearers on each rigg and a bandster.
1794 Har'st Rig xxiii. 11 The next rig redds them to take care To cut their fur.
1809 R. Kerr Gen. View Agric. County of Berwick 226 Two parties of three reapers in each, called a rig or ridge, as these three cut the grain of one ordinary ridge, or land, of fifteen feet broad.
1897 D. Pryde Queer Folk Fife 168 Each rig or company..of shearers tries to get before the others.
1918 Kelso Chron. 13 Sept. 2/6 A band-one means two rigs with five folk—four shearers and the man who binds the sheaves and puts them in stooks.
7. A ridge of elevated ground; a long narrow hill, or range of hills; a chain of islands, line of rocks, etc.Frequently in place names in southern Scotland and northern England.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > ridge > [noun]
hoe?c700
rig?c1475
banda1522
ridgea1552
fall1749
dorsum1782
wave1789
spine1796
cuesta1818
bult1852
razorback1874
?c1475 in J. Gairdner Sailing Direct. (1889) 12 (MED) Oute of Orwell..your cours is est southest, for cause of the rigge and the Rokkis.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xix. 308 Our ane hye ryg thai saw rydand Toward thame evyn a battell braid.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid in Wks. (1874) II. 284 Thar lyis.., amyd the sey, a hirst or ryg of craggy rolkis.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1601/2 Entryng with the same into Scotlande, [he] was encountered at Halydon rigge by the Earle of Arrayn.
c1650 P. Gordon Brit. Dist. 95 A continoved rigge of high craigie and vnaccessable montaines.
1699 Anal. Scot. I. 359 A great rig of islands called de Graceis.
1702 R. Thoresby Diary (1830) I. 380 The Roman rig or ridge, which passeth by it in its course.
1715 A. Pennecuik Geogr., Hist. Descr. Tweeddale 21 Then..below Kirkhouse..The Riggs and the Know of Traquair.
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 348 Rigg,..a long narrow hill.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. v. 106 I hae taen the bent ower the Otterscrape-rigg.
1896 J. K. Snowden Web of Old Weaver i. 15 The black crags upon the moor rig.
1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood xv. 257 There's a friend of yours up bye that would be blithe to see you—up the rig from the auld aik on the road to the Greenshiel.
1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 104/1 Ah's ganning ower t'rigg.
2005 Utility Week (Nexis) 8 July 27 North British Wind Power..has changed the name of the location of one of its schemes in the Lammermuir Hills near Edinburgh. The site will no longer be called Fallago Ridge. Now it is Fallago Rig.
8. Scottish. In a town: (originally) a piece of land pertaining to a tenement, left free for cultivation; (in later use) a long, narrow lot.
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1534 in J. Ferguson Ecclesia Antiqua (1905) 305 Schir Thomas..ourgave the said tenement of land with the pertinentis togiddir with the taile reggis, liand on the northt syd of the said burgh.
1611 Edinb. Test. XLVIII. f. 172, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) The tenement of land..with the taill or rig pertening thairto.
1743 Caledonian Mercury 4 Aug. Four Butts or Riggs of Land, lying in the Spey-yards of the Burgh of Perth.
1896 A. Cheviot Prov. & Pop. Rhymes Scotl. 189 I'll rather strive wi' the lang rigg than the ill neighbour.
1923 E. S. Robertson Old St. Andrews 9 The building sites in the town were mainly laid out in the form of ‘rigs’ or long strips of ground running back from the main streets.
1996 St Andrews Preserv. Trust Ann. Rep. 1995 1 Apr. 23 The lane or wynd originated in the corresponding rig or tenement at what is now 109 South Street.
†9. Agriculture. A ridge of land between plough furrows. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > rib
rest-balk?1523
rig1639
rick1641
rib1670
sleeving1732
1639 tr. J. A. Comenius Porta Linguarum Reserata (new ed.) xxxii. §391 As he layeth it up into rigs, with the one hand hee holdeth the plough-handle.., with the other the plough-staffe.

Phrases

rig and fur n. [compare ridge and furrow at ridge n.1 5d and β. forms at furrow n.] a ribbed pattern in knitted stockings or socks; frequently attributive.In quot. 1855 as an adverbial phrase.
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1764 Caled. Mercury 24 Oct. 519 He had on rig'd and fur'd blue stockings.]
1808 [see sense 5].
1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie I. x. 74 He had on a pair o' dark-blue..rig-and-fur..worsted stockings.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 173 Rig and Fur, ribbed; as ‘rig and fur'd stockings’.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 154 ‘Do you knit your stockings rig and fur?’ that is, with an alternate rib and indent longways.
a1894 J. Shaw in R. Wallace Country Schoolmaster (1899) i. 66 The black wool ‘rig and fur’ galligaskins on the legs.
1919 ‘R. Dehan’ Sailor's Home x. 199 His serge reefer coat,..Scotch heather-mixture rig-and-fur stockings and lace-up boots.
1973 A. S. Fraser Hills of Home vii. 123 My mother knitted these in ‘rig and fur’ till we learned to knit our own.

Compounds

† rigband n. Obsolete a rope or strap that passes over a horse's back to be attached to the poles of a cart; cf. backband n. 1, ridge-band n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > backband
ridgewortha1300
rigtowc1310
ridge ropea1333
rigband1408
ridge-band1418
rigwithy1419
rigwiddie1513
backband?1523
rigwithe1570
back-rope1711
rig-ropea1728
ridger1733
ridge chain1757
straddle-band1901
1408–9 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 607 Carteharnas,..belybandes et Rygbandes.
1445–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 86 (MED) Cum sakys et Ridbandis [read Rigbandis] empt. pro bobus depastis.
rig length n. Scottish (now chiefly historical) the length of a rig (sense 6a); a measure of land equivalent to the size of this. Sc. National Dict. (at Rig) records this sense as still in use in Shetland in 1968.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [noun] > narrow strip of land
swathc1325
runrig1437
raina1450
selionc1450
rundale1474
quillet1533
rig length1616
plank1631
narrow land1640
rap1710
run-ridge1741
rean1781
slinget1790
slip1837
1616 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1891) 1st Ser. X. 499 Not a rig lenth or tua fra the said dure.
1759 in J. Lauder Decisions Lords of Council I. 71 The Laird Ogilvie of Pitmowis hath incroached on the muir, by riving out and labouring two riggs length in breadth, and a quarter of a mile in length.
a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) iii. 138 That part of it..was divided into three shots, as they were called, or rigg lengths.
1867 W. Donaldson Queen Martyr 44 Here the burn was black an' big, An' me a rig length frae the brig!
1983 A. Gibb Glasgow ii. 29 A normal rig length was a furlong or c.200 metres.
rig-piece n. English regional (east midlands) the ridge of a roof; the horizontal wooden beam that runs the length of this.
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1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 173 Rig or Rig-Piece, the top of a roof, the ridge of a building.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Rig, Rig-balk, Rig-piece, or Rig-tree, the ridge-beam of a roof.
rig-rope n. English regional (north-western) a rope or chain that passes over a horse's back to be attached to the poles of a cart; cf. backband n. 1.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > backband
ridgewortha1300
rigtowc1310
ridge ropea1333
rigband1408
ridge-band1418
rigwithy1419
rigwiddie1513
backband?1523
rigwithe1570
back-rope1711
rig-ropea1728
ridger1733
ridge chain1757
straddle-band1901
a1728 W. Kennett MS Coll. Provinc. Words (BL Lansdowne MS 1033) f. 323 A Rig-rope, the rope that is fastned to the rods of a cart or waggon and goes over the saddle of the Fillar horse. Westmorl.
1805 J. Stagg Epit. Burns xvi A rig-reape, braugham, pair o' heams.
1900 W. Dickinson & E. W. Prevost Gloss. Dial. Cumberland (rev. ed.) 264/1 Rig reap, the chain or rope resting on the cart-saddle; the back-band.
rig-tile n. now English regional (Lincolnshire) a tile used for roofing the ridge of a building; a ridge tile.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > tile > [noun] > for roofing > for ridge
roof tileeOE
rig-tile1327
ridge tile1382
crest1430
crest-tile1477
rigging stone1573
crease1703
ridgetop1761
ridge tiling1795
crown tile1823
comb1824
1327Riggetille [see sense 2].
1364 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1992) xv. 232 (MED) Gotertighell [and] rigtighell [were 2s. the hundred].
1484 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 230 iij rigg tyles þat were tiled apon the Mercerie.
1543–4 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 110 Pro lxx rig tile, Willelmo Laurens de Ebor., 2s. 10d.
1877 W. D. Parish Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham Rig, a ridge; hence house-rig, plough-rig, rig-tile, &c.
1884 G. S. Streatfeild Lincolnshire & Danes ix. 177 In Lincolnshire a ridge-tile is a rigg-tile.
† rigtow n. Obsolete a rope or strap that passes over a horse's back to be attached to the poles of a cart; cf. backband n. 1.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > backband
ridgewortha1300
rigtowc1310
ridge ropea1333
rigband1408
ridge-band1418
rigwithy1419
rigwiddie1513
backband?1523
rigwithe1570
back-rope1711
rig-ropea1728
ridger1733
ridge chain1757
straddle-band1901
c1310 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 511 (MED) Flagella nova emp. pro carecta Prioris et 8 Wambtoues et Rigtoues, 6 pipes cum plustulis, 4 s.
1313–14 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 512 Rigtowes, et Wambetowes.
rig-tree n. now chiefly English regional (northern and east midlands) the horizontal wooden beam running the length of the top of a roof ridge, at which the two sloping sides of the roof meet; the ridge pole of a building.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > tent > [noun] > pole
prick1497
rig-treea1642
ridge pole1729
lodge-pole1805
pike1827
roof jack1958
a1642 in H. Best Rural Econ. in Yorks. (1857) 148 They will sowe downe theire thatch in fower places,..lastly, aboute a yard or more belowe the rigge-tree.
1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 419 A prick-post under the rig-tree.
1889 Ld. Tennyson Demeter & other Poems 38 When the rigtree was tummlin' in.
1972 Country Life 30 Mar. 791/3 At the apex a saddle carrying the rigg-tree (ridge pole) joins each pair of cruck timbers.
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rign.2

Brit. /rɪɡ/, U.S. /rɪɡ/
Forms: late Middle English–1500s 1800s rigg, 1700s– rig.
Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: rig n.1
Etymology: Apparently originally a transferred use of rig n.1, the animal's testicle being supposed to remain near its back instead of descending into the scrotum (compare e.g. quot. a1642 at ridge n.1 2b). With the same sense compare earlier riggold n., and also riggon n., riggot n.1, rigling n.It is possible that the plural form riggis in c1475 represents a pronunciation with /dʒ/ rather than /ɡ/ and therefore shows a parallel transferred use of ridge n.1 (see further discussion at that entry); compare in the same sense ridgel n., ridgeling n.
An animal that has been imperfectly castrated (originally also: spayed), or whose genitals are not properly developed; esp. a male animal (ram, bull, stallion, etc.) with only one testicle; = ridgel n., ridgeling n.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > sexual organs > whose genitals are undeveloped
riggold1410
ridgeling1555
riggot1559
rigling1563
riggon1567
ridgel1597
riggon tupa1642
rig1702
the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock > stock or breed > neutered animal > imperfectly neutered
riggold1410
ridgeling1555
riggot1559
rigling1563
ridgel1597
rig1851
c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 447 (MED) Late at eve he wol onspere the gate And grope on morwe yif Riggis [a1500 Voss i. canis] bak be wet.
1578 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1899) IV. 181 No butcher shalle put in enye rigges into ye medows.
1702 London Gaz. No. 3852/4 One side of his Cod looks like a Rig.
1705 London Gaz. No. 4125/4 A light black Rig Horse, one Stone come down on the near side of his Cod.
1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 431 Three out of the four [sheep]..were, indeed, what are termed ‘riggs’, or were only half-castrated.
1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 509 Ox-deer, or ‘heaviers’, and rigs are in season with the yeld-hinds till the end of January.
1919 S. Spencer Pig v. 62 It is, therefore, advisable to fatten a rig quite early in life and convert it into a porket or porker carcase of pork.
1949 A. Fraser Sheep Husb. iii. 156 A rig with undescended testicle or testicles may behave like a ram in every way but to no useful reproductive purpose.
1986 J. F. Gracey Meat Hygiene (ed. 8) ii. 65/2 In Britain the meat of boars, castrated boars and cryptorchid pigs (rigs) is of lower value than the flesh of sows because of the boar odour.
2008 West Australian (Perth) (Nexis) 3 Jan. 107 It was Lucky Elmo's first win since recently being reclassified from a gelding to a rig after an inquiry into his testosterone levels.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rign.3

Brit. /rɪɡ/, U.S. /rɪɡ/
Forms: see rig v.2
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rig v.2
Etymology: < rig v.2 Compare Norwegian rigg , Swedish rigg , Danish rig (all 19th cent.; probably < English). Compare earlier rigging n.2
1.
a. Nautical. The particular configuration of masts, sails, and spars on a sailing vessel. Also occasionally: the rigging (rigging n.2 2a) of a vessel. Also figurative.In quot. a1572 perhaps: a mast, or (in plural) rigging.Frequently with distinguishing word indicating the configuration used; for more established compounds, as Bermuda, cat, jury, ketch, Montagu, square rig, etc., see the first element.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > [noun] > arrangement of masts sails
riga1572
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun]
tacklea1300
tacklingc1422
cordaille1484
riga1572
rigging1594
cordage1598
riggage1627
reeking1640
gear1669
a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. (1587) 89 Our Scottish shippes were stayed, the sayles taken from the rigges.
1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery vii. 190 I could distinguish every sail, the general ‘rig of the ship’, and its particular character.
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports ii. viii. i. §4. 462/2 The rig suited to very small river boats.
1878 R. W. Emerson Misc. in Wks. (1906) III. 399 More forward and forthright [are] his whole build and rig than the Englishman's.
1888 L. A. Smith Music of Waters 222 Out in Pamerent in Holland, There lay a brig so old; Worn out was her hull, And worn out was her rig.
1903 Rudder Feb. 52/1 Mr. Crowninshield has changed the overhangs slightly..and has put on a slightly larger rig.
1934 Yachting Monthly Apr. 463/1 The weight and centre of gravity of the rig must be considered.
1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 178 Sail plan, a diagram to show a boat's rig and measurements.
1998 Yachts & Yachting 12 June 19/3 The rig is a composite alloy/glassfibre mast set up with immense rig tension.
b. Windsurfing. The sail, mast, and boom of a windsurfer, considered together as a single piece of equipment.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > sailboard
sailboard1962
Windsurfer1969
rig1970
1970 Los Angeles Times 10 May (Mag. section) 22/2 Car-topping the 60-pound rig to the nearest bay or lake is easy.
1989 Amer. Jrnl. Compar. Law 37 560 The obligation not to separately sell rig and board where only the rig was presumed to be protected by the patent and thus object of the licensing agreement.
1997 Boards Mar. 84/2 A very expensive way of doing it; the ideal board and rig package costing £2000+.
2001 N. Baker & D. R. Moreno Ultimate Guide Windsurfing vii. 89/1 Super light carbon masts and booms and a billion hours experimentation with sail twist and foil shape, have left us with standard rotational rigs which are faster than the pro race rigs of five years ago.
2.
a. Originally and chiefly North American. Originally: a horse-drawn vehicle, frequently including attendants, horses, and harness. Later: any (usually large) vehicle, esp. an articulated truck, or the hauling part of this. Cf. tractor-trailer n. at tractor n. Compounds 2. Also in big rig.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > [noun]
chariot1594
vehiculum?1632
triumphal1633
vehicle1656
machinament1674
machine1759
rig1831
shebang1872
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun]
carc1320
chara1400
charet?a1400
wagon1542
carry1600
rotan1676
messagerie1777
pillbox1789
bandy1791
Pennsylvania wagon1800
gharry1810
rath1813
vardo1819
rig1831
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > with its draught animals
plough1505
team1641
Yarmouth coacha1661
rig1831
yoke1894
hitch1912
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun] > truck or lorry
rig1831
lorry1911
truck1916
camion1922
1831 A. Stoddard Diary 30 Nov. in Michigan Hist. Mag. (1927) 11 472 Breakfast swallowed we stepped into our next rig, which was a lumber wagon.
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xlvi. 325 I've heard tell of carriages all my life... I mean to have the nobbiest rig that's going.
1885 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 16 110 One part of the team (or ‘rig’, as they say west of the Hudson).
1894 C. L. Johnstone Canada 64 I hired a ‘rig’ or ‘buckboard’ for 3 dollars to take me as far as Carlton.
1931 H. F. Pringle Theodore Roosevelt i. i. 4 A rig had been..summoned from a near-by stable.
1938 Amer. Speech 13 307 Rig, also a designation for any bus.
1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. iii. 16 A great big tough truckdriver..got his rig under way.
1974 Times 11 Feb. 6/7 Mr Nixon came on the air..to urge the drivers to get their ‘big rigs’ back on the road.
1976 Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 11 Apr. b1/1 Fifteen seconds after the alarm sounded, both the fire truck and paramedic rig were rolling.
2001 Time 22 Oct. 45/3 Drivers of rigs hauling dangerous loads must have both a commercial driver's license and a hazardous-material..endorsement from a state.
b. A piece of apparatus or equipment, typically large and more or less elaborate, made for a particular purpose.test rig: see the first element.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > equipment for any action or undertaking > a device or contrivance
compassinga1300
graithc1375
jetc1380
cautelc1440
quaint?a1450
invention1546
trick1548
frame1558
fashion1562
device1570
conveyance1596
address1598
molition1598
fabric1600
machine1648
fancy1665
art1667
fanglementa1670
convenience1671
conveniency1725
contraption1825
affair1835
rig1845
1845 Niles' National Reg. 25 Oct. 128/3 The new rig works like a charm: and all who have witnessed the combined effects of the steam and sails, are perfectly satisfied of the value of the former.
1867 O. J. Hollister Mines of Colorado vii. 193 The Rocky Mountain Gold Mining Company have 250 feet on the Bates... They have a stone engine-house, and..a 40-horse engine, expected to drive the mill, pump, and hoisting rig.
1868 14th Ann. Rep. Iowa State Agric. Soc. 1867 174 I consider the Victor mill & Cook's evaporator the best rig for making sirup profitably from cane.
1919 Northwestern Reporter 169 171/2 The plaintiff at one time was the owner of this threshing rig.
1950 Engineering 10 Mar. 265/2 The drill steel is placed on a rig and the tip is ground either by a pedestal grinder or by a hand grinder.
1973 Sci. Amer. Nov. 1/3 (advt.) Before a new seat enters production, its suspension must survive 300,000 load changes on a vibrating rig.
2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 22 Feb. 29 Because it shed a very bright light over a large area, it became the standard rig for night filming.
c. Angling. Any particular configuration of tackle.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > [noun]
tackle1398
tewc1440
craft1521
tackling1548
fishing-tackle1703
box swivel1725
fishing-gear1839
rig1865
1865 H. Cholmondeley-Pennell Bk. of Pike xv. 228 This rig also has the advantage of being easily applied to any spoon-bait with a few minutes' trouble.
1899 Outing Sept. 578/2 He offers the pickerel a large minnow on this rig and waits until the bait is well gorged.
1921 W. H. Miller Sportsman's Workshop viii. 126 Another modification of the same rig is a large bone button with the line passing through one hole and the sinker line tied through the other.
1960 Times 12 Nov. 9/5 Simple ledger tackle with a swivelled lead is the best rig for Thames bream.
2005 N.Y. Mag. 4 July 88/4 Bunker is the best bait here; use a fish-finder rig with heavy tackle and heavy sinkers (five to eight ounces).
d. An apparatus used in sinking an oil or gas well; spec. an oil rig.jack-up, oil, well rig: see the first element.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > oil rig > [noun]
rig1875
oil rig1876
society > occupation and work > equipment > oil and natural gas recovery equipment > [noun] > apparatus for well-sinking
rig1875
oil rig1876
exploration rig1974
society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > boring tool > for boring in the ground
auger1532
borer1572
boring-rod?1677
wimble1693
well borer1780
rock drill1836
miser1842
bore-rod1849
header1863
well drill1866
rig1875
well rig1875
trepan1877
broaching-bit1881
heading machine1897
1875 H. E. Wrigley Special Rep. Petroleum Pennsylvania p. viii Plan of a well rig and tools for artesian drilling..as in use at present in the Pennsylvania region.
1883 Cent. Mag. July 329/2 [The boiler] usually stands at some distance from the derrick, so that it will not be injured in case the rest of the ‘rig’ is destroyed by fire.
1946 E. Hodgins Mr. Blandings builds his Dream House i. vi. 89 Mr Blandings' well was being drilled... The rig's motor roared and stank.
1974 E. Ambler Dr. Frigo i. 46 It's not the same as ordinary offshore drilling. The rigs have to be different.
2004 Outside Feb. 84/1 It would be years before I learned that the cargo we carried was a British Petroleum/Chevron exploratory rig.
e. A radio transmitter or receiver as used by an amateur. Also more widely: any piece of radio equipment, as an aerial or radar set.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > aerial
radiator1897
aerial wire1899
aerial1902
antenna1902
loop antenna1906
loop aerial1913
twin aerial1913
frame aerial1916
loop1922
beam aerial1926
cage aerial1926
Adcock1928
dipole1929
V antenna1932
beam antenna1935
rig1935
horn1936
whip1940
whip aerial1941
whip antenna1943
polyrod1945
unipole1945
slot aerial1946
slot antenna1946
dish1948
quad1951
V aerial1961
dish aerial1962
rectenna1964
omni-antenna1966
monopole1974
society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun] > types of > radio-telegraphs
wireless telegraph1895
Marconigraph1902
radio-telegraph1903
radiograph1904
spark telegraph1934
rig1935
radioteletype1939
RT1941
society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > radar apparatus
radar1941
set1948
rig1966
1935 N. H. Hopkins Brit. Patent 427,400 5/1 A broadcasting station, equipped for conventional radio broadcasting and receiving, through the medium of the aerial rig.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §810/2 Telegraph, ethegraph, kid, Old Betsy, rig, she.
1960 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 29 Sept. 39/3 Hams have their own slang terms. ‘Rig’ is what they call their sending and receiving equipment.
1966 M. Woodhouse Tree Frog xxi. 155 This [radar] rig is operational two per cent of the time.
1989 I. D. Poole Introd. Amateur Radio iii. 56 It is quite easy to convert 27 MHz CB rigs to use these frequencies.
2003 D. Gregory & P. Sahre Hello World 13 Jerry stayed in the basement and talked to her destinations on the rig.
f. A hi-fi system; (in later use) an audio system used to project speech or music to an audience.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun]
talking machine1844
recorder1867
phonograph1877
dictating machine1878
melograph1879
melodiographa1884
graphophone1886
photographophone1901
auxetophone1904
Dictaphone1906
telediphone1931
transcriber1931
wire recorder1934
sound truck1936
high fidelity1938
Soundscriber1946
player1948
rig1950
transcriptor1957
unit1966
sequencer1975
boom box1981
ghetto blaster1983
beat-box1985
1950 Atlantic Mar. 92/2 Such a rig's components would be designed to handle, without appreciable distortion, all the tones the human ear can take in.
1976 A. Hope Hi-fi Handbk. 10 After the purchase of a house and a car, an impressive hi-fi rig may well be the next most expensive item ever bought by a householder.
1992 V. Capel Public Addr. Syst. xiv. 192 Loudspeaker systems... For large rigs..a pair set at angles in a suitable enclosure gives a wide coverage.
2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 268 I wipe it on my sleeve and slap it on the never-used turntable that came with my stack hi-fi rig. It's an Abba song.
2008 Remix (Nexis) 1 Dec. 12 Laptop-based DJs and performers may have less gear to carry overall, but they still need to get their rig to the show and look good doing it.
3.
a. colloquial. A set of clothes (often including accessories) selected or designed to be worn together; an outfit. Also: clothing of this type. Cf. earlier full rig n. 1, rig-out n., rig v.2 6.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun]
wearing?c1225
guisec1275
attire1382
habita1420
shapea1425
trick1542
fashion1544
trim1579
suit shape1598
garb1608
form1664
toilet1752
macaroni dressa1777
turn-out1812
style1814
set-out1834
get-up1842
rig1843
feather1854
model1859
make-up1883
1843 T. C. Haliburton Attaché I. xii. 218 Congregations are rigged out in their..bran new clothes, silks, satins.., and all sorts of rigs.
1853 ‘P. Paxton’ Stray Yankee in Texas xxvii. 267 Here was a rig for a July day in Texas, with the thermometer at 105° in the shade!
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. v. 100 You'll do very well as to rig, all but that cap.
1884 G. Allen Philistia II. 28 Two sturdy British holiday-seekers, in..regular Alpine climbing rig.
1951 G. Heyer Quiet Gentleman vii. 103 I daresay my mother-in-law will dislike it excessively that you have come to visit me—and in such a rig!
1963 N. Bawden Secret Passage vii. 98 I knew this rig didn't exactly suit my figure but I didn't think I looked as funny as all that.
2004 Cockpit Summer 39/2 Whilst on ship, it is quite common for flight deck crews to wear No.4 trousers and a trade flight deck jersey. A far more sensible rig when it comes to heat.
b. Nautical. rig of the day: the uniform to be worn on a particular day, as specified in a ship's daily orders.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific people > for members of a body or association > naval, military, etc. > types of
regimentals1728
undress1748
regiments1759
regimental1764
dress uniform1774
kit1785
roast beef coat1802
butternut1810
frock-uniform1810
fatigue-dress1834
fatigue1836
fatigue-uniform1836
shirtsleeve order1854
grey1862
scarlet runnerc1864
square-rig1875
rig of the day1877
swagger-dress1901
trench coat1914
hospital blue1919
romper1922
suntan1937
battle-dress1938
army greens1945
mess kit1953
tiger suit1970
1877 Punch 7 Apr. 153/1 A man going on deck must be in the rig of the day.
1914 ‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions xviii. 157 The ‘Rig of the Day’ was ‘Number Ones’.
1984 T. Jones in P. Fussell Wartime (1989) 85 Punished we were, and sometimes for the most trite offenses—being late on muster, being out of the rig of the day at anchorages, [etc.].
4. U.S. slang. A set of articles used to take drugs intravenously; spec. a hypodermic needle and syringe.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > equipment for taking drugs
outfit1881
cooker1905
quill1916
spike1934
work1934
joint1935
rig1935
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 97/2 Rig, an improvised hypodermic needle.
1972 B. Jackson In Life i. 69 They pulled out the rig, the needle and the hype and everything, and started fixing.
1989 J. Tyman Inside Out iii. 216 Finally I found a vein, tiny and frail... Then I saw blood enter the barrel of the rig and I started feeding the fluid into my arm.
2004 New Yorker 16 Feb. 166/3 Associates say that Mac would hole up in his cell with ‘a rig’—a homemade syringe typically constructed out of a needle stolen from the infirmary and a hollowed-out ballpoint pen.
5. coarse slang. The penis.In quot. 1964 as part of an extended metaphor.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis
weapona1000
tarsec1000
pintleOE
cock?c1335
pillicock?c1335
yard1379
arrowa1382
looma1400
vergea1400
instrumentc1405
fidcocka1475
privya1500
virile member (or yard)?1541
prickc1555
tool1563
pillock1568
penis1578
codpiece1584
needle1592
bauble1593
dildo1597
nag1598
virility1598
ferret1599
rubigo?a1600
Jack1604
mentula1605
virge1608
prependent1610
flute1611
other thing1628
engine1634
manhood1640
cod1650
quillity1653
rammer1653
runnion1655
pego1663
sex1664
propagator1670
membrum virile1672
nervea1680
whore-pipe1684
Roger1689
pudding1693
handle?1731
machine1749
shaft1772
jock1790
poker1811
dickyc1815
Johnny?1833
organ1833
intromittent apparatus1836
root1846
Johnson1863
Peter1870
John Henry1874
dickc1890
dingusc1890
John Thomasc1890
old fellowc1890
Aaron's rod1891
dingle-dangle1893
middle leg1896
mole1896
pisser1896
micky1898
baby-maker1902
old man1902
pecker1902
pizzle1902
willy1905
ding-dong1906
mickey1909
pencil1916
dingbatc1920
plonkerc1920
Johna1922
whangera1922
knob1922
tube1922
ding1926
pee-pee1927
prong1927
pud1927
hose1928
whang1928
dong1930
putz1934
porkc1935
wiener1935
weenie1939
length1949
tadger1949
winkle1951
dinger1953
winky1954
dork1961
virilia1962
rig1964
wee-wee1964
Percy1965
meat tool1966
chopper1967
schlong1967
swipe1967
chode1968
trouser snake1968
ding-a-ling1969
dipstick1970
tonk1970
noonies1972
salami1977
monkey1978
langer1983
wanker1987
1964 Amer. Folk Music Occas. No. 1. 12 There is a certain latitude in the approach to Negro blues where women are sweet food..and sex is hard, virile labor (I got a big tall rig, it drills way down deep).
1968 in D. Henderson 'Scuse me while I kiss Sky (2008) 210 He [sc. Jimi Hendrix] has got just about the biggest rig I've ever seen!
1973 M. Amis Rachel Papers 92 All weekend I cried,..thought of ways of committing suicide,..considered lopping off my rig with a razor-blade.
1991 Details Dec. 122/1 In Guns N' Roses parlance the word ‘rig’ means something quite different. Depending on whom you ask, it means either ‘syringe’ or ‘penis’.

Compounds

General attributive (in sense 2d).
rig crew n.
ΚΠ
1910 Oxnard (Calif.) Courier 9 Aug. 8/2 A well is being put in on the W. R. Sniveley ranch by the Witmand and Rosenberg rig crew.
1972 L. M. Harris Introd. Deepwater Floating Drilling Operations xviii. 191 The shortage of personnel is not limited only to rig crews.
2005 M. Etherington Revolt on Tigris i. 25 I remember the entire rig crew working until dawn to overcome a drilling problem that had taken us off-line.
rig medic n.
ΚΠ
1974 in R. H. Strauss Diving Med. (1976) 394 Asked for and obtained ‘embrocation cream’..from Rig medic.
2006 C. F. York Strategic Reserve xiii. 203 Roger that, Raptor. We'll get a rig medic over there as fast as we can.
rig operator n.
ΚΠ
1952 Big Spring (Texas) Daily Herald 12 Oct. 5/2 Other services include acidizing wells, doing ‘squeeze’ work (patching holes)..and handling equipment for all occasions... Robinett says the company sells cement..to any rig operator.
2003 W. L. Leffler et al. Deepwater Petroleum Explor. & Production iv. 57 The drilling superintendent and his team select the rig operator who they believe can drill the well in the most cost effective and safest way.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

rign.4

Brit. /rɪɡ/, U.S. /rɪɡ/
Forms: 1500s ryg, 1500s–1600s rigg, 1500s–1600s rigge, 1500s–1600s 1800s– rig, 1600s wrig.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by conversion. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: rig v.4; rig n.2
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < rig v.4, or perhaps directly < rig n.2, with allusion to the behaviour typical of such animals. Compare slightly earlier riggish adj., rigsby n.
Now rare (chiefly English regional).
A wanton or loose woman; (in early use esp.) a harlot, a prostitute. Cf. tomrigg n.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman
queanOE
whorec1175
malkinc1275
wenchelc1300
ribalda1350
strumpeta1350
wench1362
filtha1375
parnelc1390
sinner14..
callet1415
slut?c1425
tickle-tailc1430
harlot?a1475
mignote1489
kittock?a1500
mulea1513
trulla1516
trully?1515
danta1529
miswoman1528
stewed whore1532
Tib1533
unchaghe1534
flag1535
Katy1535
jillet1541
yaud1545
housewife1546
trinkletc1550
whippet1550
Canace1551
filthy1553
Jezebel1558
kittyc1560
loonc1560
laced mutton1563
nymph1563
limmer1566
tomboy1566
Marian1567
mort1567
cockatrice1568
franion1571
blowze1573
rannell1573
rig1575
Kita1577
poplet1577
light-skirts1578
pucelle1578
harlotry1584
light o' lovea1586
driggle-draggle1588
wagtail1592
tub-tail1595
flirt-gill1597
minx1598
hilding1599
short-heels1599
bona-roba1600
flirt1600
Hiren1600
light-heels1602
roba1602
baggage1603
cousin1604
fricatrice1607
rumbelow1611
amorosa1615
jaya1616
open-taila1618
succubus1622
snaphancea1625
flap1631
buttered bun1638
puffkin1639
vizard1652
fallen woman1659
tomrigg1662
cunt1663
quaedama1670
jilt1672
crack1677
grass-girl1691
sporting girl1694
sportswoman1705
mobbed hood1707
brim1736
trollop1742
trub1746
demi-rep1749
gillyflower1757
lady of easy virtue1766
mot1773
chicken1782
gammerstang1788
buer1807
scarlet woman1816
blowen1819
fie-fie1820
shickster?1834
streel1842
charver1846
trolly1854
bad girl1855
amateur1862
anonyma1862
demi-virgin1864
pickup1871
chippy1885
wish-wife1886
tart1887
tartleta1890
flossy1893
fly girl1893
demi-mondaine1894
floozy1899
slattern1899
scrub1900
demi-vierge1908
cake1909
coozie1912
muff1914
tarty1918
yes-girl1920
radge1923
bike1945
puta1948
messer1951
cooze1955
jamette1965
skeezer1986
slutbag1987
chickenhead1988
ho1988
1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle iii. iii. sig. Ciii Nay fy on thee yu rampe, thou ryg, with al that take thy parte.
1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia iii. sig. D2 My Muse shall play the rig Once in her dayes, but shee shall quittance thee.
?1605 J. Davies Wittes Pilgrimage sig. V2 The most voluptuous ouer-wanton Rigge Proud Plentie, scornes meeke Pieties Woman-hood.
1638 N. Whiting Il Insonio Insonnadado 139 I have espied a plump-cheek'd bonny lass. She is a wrig, I warrant.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. vi. 110 Let none condemn them for Rigs, because thus hoiting with boys.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. Pantagr. Prognost. 237 Those whom Venus is said to rule, as Punks, Jills, Flirts,..Misses, Cats, Riggs.
1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Rig, a female light in her carriage, a wanton.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) Proper rig her is, an' no mistake.
1929 E. Linklater Poet's Pub ii. 35 You ungrateful rig.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rign.5

Brit. /rɪɡ/, U.S. /rɪɡ/
Forms: 1600s– rig, 1700s–1800s rigg, 1800s– reg (English regional (Somerset)), 1900s– reeg (Scottish (Roxburghshire)).
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps related to reak n., although the nature of any relationship is unclear. Perhaps compare also earlier rex n.2
1.
a. colloquial. A dishonest or fraudulent scheme or enterprise; a trick, a swindle. Also: something used to deceive or defraud a person.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > a wile or cunning device
wrenchc888
craftOE
turnc1225
ginc1275
play?a1300
enginec1300
wrenkc1325
forsetc1330
sleightc1340
knackc1369
cautel138.
subtletya1393
wilea1400
tramc1400
wrinkle1402
artc1405
policy?1406
subtilityc1410
subtiltyc1440
jeopardy1487
jouk1513
pawka1522
frask1524
false point?1528
conveyance1534
compass1540
fineness1546
far-fetch?a1562
stratagem1561
finesse1562
entrapping1564
convoyance1578
lift1592
imagine1594
agitation1600
subtleship1614
artifice1620
navation1628
wimple1638
rig1640
lapwing stratagem1676
feint1679
undercraft1691
fly-flap1726
management1736
fakement1811
old tricka1822
fake1829
trickeration1940
swiftie1945
shrewdie1961
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > a trick, deception
wrenchc888
swikec893
braida1000
craftOE
wile1154
crookc1175
trokingc1175
guile?c1225
hocket1276
blink1303
errorc1320
guileryc1330
sleightc1340
knackc1369
deceitc1380
japec1380
gaudc1386
syllogism1387
mazec1390
mowa1393
train?a1400
trantc1400
abusionc1405
creekc1405
trickc1412
trayc1430
lirtc1440
quaint?a1450
touch1481
pawka1522
false point?1528
practice1533
crink1534
flim-flamc1538
bobc1540
fetcha1547
abuse1551
block1553
wrinklec1555
far-fetch?a1562
blirre1570
slampant1577
ruse1581
forgery1582
crank1588
plait1589
crossbite1591
cozenage1592
lock1598
quiblin1605
foist1607
junt1608
firk1611
overreach?1615
fob1622
ludification1623
knick-knacka1625
flam1632
dodge1638
gimcrack1639
fourbe1654
juggle1664
strategy1672
jilt1683
disingenuity1691
fun1699
jugglementa1708
spring1753
shavie1767
rig?1775
deception1794
Yorkshire bite1795
fakement1811
fake1829
practical1833
deceptivity1843
tread-behind1844
fly1861
schlenter1864
Sinonism1864
racket1869
have1885
ficelle1890
wheeze1903
fast one1912
roughie1914
spun-yarn trick1916
fastie1931
phoney baloney1933
fake-out1955
okey-doke1964
mind-fuck1971
1640 T. Nabbes Unfortunate Mother iii. i. sig. F2 Pole. Why what disloyall divell Hath put these thoughts into you?..why how dare you Cherish such vaine ambition? Not. But say it be my rig.
1753 Discoveries J. Poulter (ed. 7) 18 We went at Night on our old Rigg.
?1775 Ranelaugh Concert 7/2 I am up to all your knowing rigs.
1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) (at cited word) I am up to your rig; I am a match for your tricks.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1838) xli. 290/1 These two gentlemen having by turns perused Mr. Pickwick's billet, the one expressed his opinion that it was ‘a rig’, and the other his conviction that it was ‘a go’.
c1840 Frauds of London Exposed 12 (Thimble-riggers) The rig is practised at fairs, at races, or on public roads.
1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ 194 The ‘rig is worked’; or in other words, the swindle is perpetrated, by means of a dealing-box.
1928 Amer. Mercury Oct. 133/2 He easily wheedled the loggers into believing that Public Service was the finest rig yet... After the Fourth [of July] the other cranks quit work for Public Service.
1999 P. Quarrington Spirit Cabinet xi. 134 The trousers would be eviscerated too, so that he [sc. the magician] could put his hands into his pockets and gain immediate access to a modified machinist's apron full of little rigs, gags, and decks of cards.
2002 S. Waters Fingersmith i. 4 ‘I know your little rig,’ she said quietly. She knew everybody's rig. ‘What you get? A couple of wipers, was it? A couple of wipers and a lady's purse?’
b. A fraudulent auction, spec. one of worthless goods at which genuine bidding is encouraged by spurious bids made by associates of the auctioneer; a mock auction. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > [noun] > auction > Dutch auction
mock auction1770
rig1825
Dutch auction1859
run-out1934
1825 Atheneum: Spirit of Eng. Mags. 15 Mar. 477/1 The goods, where there is a rig, whether furniture or otherwise, are generally either damaged, or got up on purpose, in a shabby but showy way.
1851 Chambers's Jrnl. 15 105 Sometimes the Rig..is only confined to one or two rooms, or to a certain species of goods.
1897 W. C. Hazlitt Four Generations Lit. Family II. 375 He was not a habitual attendant at the auctions, but on this occasion he was there in person, and bade for every lot. A whisper circulated that it was a rig.
1913 A. Growoll & A. H. Leypoldt Profession of Bookselling III. 168/2 In time the booksellers also encouraged auction sales, and diverted them to their own uses, notably..to effect what to-day in England is termed ‘a rig’.
c. Stock Market. An attempt to manipulate prices by cornering the market in a publicly listed stock. Cf. corner n.1 14a.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements > disreputable
poison pill1653
rig1826
cornering1841
wash-sale1848
washing1849
market-rigging1851
corner1853
watering1868
wreck1876
manipulation1888
wash1891
market mongering1901
matched orders1903
grey market1933
bond washing1937
warehousing1971
bed-and-breakfasting1974
dawn raid1980
1826 Times 23 Feb. 2/6 Very few shares were paid upon in the Company, as it was intended to ‘rig’ them in the market. The ‘rig’ failed.
1862 W. D. Seymour Middle Temple Benchers 39 I got a letter communicating to me the fact of a rig upon the Stock Exchange.
1916 Times 1 Jan. 14/2 There is no artificial rig in the rubber market at all; if there were it would be to rig it the other way to what it has gone. Prices have risen..in response to legitimate demand.
2001 E. Hennessy Coffee House to Cyber Market ii. 37 Rigs and corners abounded, especially in the new mining shares.
†2. Mockery, banter. Cf. to run one's rig upon at Phrases 1. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > [noun]
mirth1560
dicacity1592
jest1597
pleasantry1602
raillery1642
rallery1652
badinage1658
banter1660
disport1667
badinerie1712
rig1725
bantery1739
jokery1740
persiflage1757
quizzery1809
quiz1819
chaff1841
borak1845
barrackc1890
mickey-take1968
smack talk1989
bants2008
1725 New Canting Dict. Rig, Game, Diversion, Ridicule.
1802 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1803) 6 113 I'll tell thee, dear Jack, without nonsense or rig, Why I'm constantly seen in this old flaxen wig.
3. A joke, a prank, a game. Also: a playful and lively movement or activity; a frolic. Now English regional (midlands and southern).Recorded earliest in to run a rig at Phrases 3.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun] > a frolic
oliprancec1390
ragerya1393
vague1523
rex1566
friskin1570
gambol1573
reak1573
prank1576
vagary1588
whirligig1589
caper1592
prinkum-prankum1596
firk1611
frolica1635
carryings-on1663
ramp1696
romp1713
freak1724
scheme1758
rig1782
lark1811
escapade1814
gammock1819
gambade1821
enfantillage1827
game1828
shines1830
rollick1834
rusty1835
high jinksa1845
escapado1849
shenanigan1855
rum-tum1876
panta1901
gas1914
1782 W. Cowper Hist. John Gilpin in Public Advertiser 14 Nov. He little dreamt when he set out Of running such a Rig.
1811 Sporting Mag. 37 75 War cannot..be styled a sporting rig; why then, I answer, it is a fashionable rig.
a1845 R. H. Barham Wedding-day in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 223 Don't grudge them their jigs, And their frolics and ‘rigs’.
1866 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 620 Everybody says that she is as proud as Lucifer; and, after all, nobody knows what rigs she has been up to.
1904 J. P. Kirk in Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 107/1 He did play some rigs.
1993 K. C. Phillipps Gloss. Cornish Dial. (1998) 48 We had rigs last night.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 245/2 Thi'll tell on thee anall if thoo dunt stop this stupid oud rigs.

Phrases

P1. to run one's rig upon and variants. Now regional.
a. To make a fool or mockery of; to ridicule.Apparently originally a use of sense 2, but in later use probably of sense 3.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (transitive)]
teleeOE
laughOE
bismerc1000
heascenc1000
hethec1175
scornc1175
hokera1225
betell?c1225
scorn?c1225
forhushc1275
to make scorn at, toc1320
boba1382
bemow1388
lakea1400
bobby14..
triflea1450
japec1450
mock?c1450
mowc1485
to make (a) mock at?a1500
to make mocks at?a1500
scrip?a1513
illude1516
delude1526
deride1530
louta1547
to toy with ——1549–62
flout1551
skirp1568
knack1570
to fart against1574
frump1577
bourd1593
geck?a1600
scout1605
subsannate1606
railly1612
explode1618
subsannea1620
dor1655
monkeya1658
to make an ass of (someone)1680
ridicule1680
banter1682
to run one's rig upon1735
fun1811
to get the run upon1843
play1891
to poke mullock at1901
razz1918
flaunt1923
to get (or give) the razoo1926
to bust (a person's) chops1953
wolf1966
pimp1968
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (transitive)] > banter mercilessly
roast1710
to run one's rig upon1735
rot1890
1735 Craftsman No. 449. 205 Another Artifice, practised by these Gentlemen, is running the Rig..upon an Author's Words, and turning his own Cannon upon Him.
1753 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 25 You have been very facetious all Night,—you have run your rig upon me.
1814 in J. Nichols Lit. Anecd. 18th Cent. (1816) VIII. 543 You are always running your rig upon me, and calling me stupid.
1838 W. M. Thackeray Yellowplush Corr. in Fraser's Mag. Feb. 248/1 Mr. Deuceace, don't you be running your rigs upon me.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 276/1 Run the rig on someone, ridicule someone.
b. To play a prank or trick on.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > play tricks [phrase]
to do or make a blenk or blencha1250
to play (a person) a pageant1530
to give one the geck1568
to play a paw1568
to draw through the water with a cat1631
come1714
to run one's rig upon1793
to come (the) paddy over1809
to work a traverse1840
to go on, have, take a lark1884
to pull a fast one1912
to take for a ride1925
to pull a person's pissera1935
to pull a person's chain1975
1793 Bee 28 Aug. 325 Avast brother shipmate, avast running your rig on an old sailor.
1869 Harper's Mag. Nov. 888/1 He was continually seeking opportunities to run his rigs upon others.
1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) 442 I knaw I did it, bud doänt thoo run noän o' thy̆ rigs upo' me.
1940 Sat. Evening Post 10 Feb. 85 He knew Chad has run a rig on him. It was a smart rig.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 276/1 Run or take a rig on someone, play a trick on someone.
P2. to run the rig and variants: to behave recklessly; to run riot. Now regional.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > make merry [verb (intransitive)] > noisy or riotous
revelc1390
ragea1400
roara1450
jet?1518
tirl on the berry?1520
roist1563
roist1574
revel1580
domineer1592
ranta1616
roister1663
scour1673
tory-rory1685
scheme1738
to run the rig1750
gilravagea1760
splore?a1799
spree1859
to go on the (or a) bend1863
to flare up1869
to whoop it up1873
to paint the town (red)1882
razzle1908
to make whoopee1920
boogie1929
to beat it up1933
ball1946
rave1961
1750 Student 1 No. 7. 271 Art and nature run the rig In one perpetual merry jig.
1799 T. Beddoes Contrib. Physical & Med. Knowl. 315 To run the rig with the boys in the street, in place of going on my errand.
1818 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Life & Lett. Scott IV. 185 While Tom marks out a dyke or drain.., one's fancy may be running its ain riggs in some other world.
1886 E. Lynn Linton Paston Carew II. x. 218 When I'm gone I shan't be none the wiser if you go wrong and run your rigs as you have done.
1904 R. Ford Humorous Sc. Stories 2nd Ser. 26 He has run the rigs wi' Maggie Anderson.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 276/2 Run the rigs, behave recklessly.
†P3. to run a rig (and variants): to play a prank or trick. Obsolete.In quot. 1764 perhaps: to engage in mockery or banter.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (transitive)]
tauntc1530
railly1668
rally1672
banter1677
smoke1699
to get, take, or have a rise out of1703
joke1748
to run a rig1764
badinage1778
queer1778
quiz1787
to poke (one's) fun (at)1795
gammon1801
chaff1826
to run on ——1830
rig1841
trail1847
josh1852
jolly1874
chip1898
barrack1901
horse1901
jazz1927
to take the mike out ofa1935
to take the piss (out of)1945
to take the mickey (out of)1948
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > trick, hoax [verb (transitive)]
jape1362
bejape1377
play1562
jugglea1592
dally1595
trick1595
bore1602
jadea1616
to fool off1631
top1663
whiska1669
hocus1675
to put a sham upon1677
sham1677
fun?1685
to put upon ——1687
rig1732
humbug1750
hum1751
to run a rig1764
hocus-pocus1774
cram1794
hoax1796
kid1811
string1819
to play off1821
skylark1823
frisk1825
stuff1844
lark1848
kiddy1851
soap1857
to play it (on)1864
spoof1889
to slip (something) over (on)1912
cod1941
to pull a person's chain1975
game1996
1764 A. Smith Let. 2 Apr., in L. H. Butterfield Adams Family Corr. (1963) I. 13 Thus haveing run my rig, think it time to draw towards a close.
1782 [see sense 3].
1799 J. T. Allingham Fortune's Frolic i. iii. 15 No, no; you are running your rigs, I know you are, Robin.
1858 S. A. Hammett Piney Woods Tavern 139 Don't you go runnin' any of yer rigs, nor pokin' fun at me.
1899 S. MacManus In Chimney Corners (1904) 98 For the next seven years, Willie run the same rigs he had done afore.

Compounds

† rig sale n. Obsolete = sense 1b.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > [noun] > auction > under false or fraudulent pretences
mock auction1770
rig sale1812
rigged sale1862
1812 Ruinous Tendency Auctioneering 35 The auctioneer himself having been the swindler in chief, who planned the scheme to make up what is technically called a ‘rigg sale’, that is, a sale where a part or the whole of the property is the auctioneer's own, and the price of which is kept up by having two or three sham gentlemen to bid one against the other.
1851 Chambers's Jrnl. 15 102 The ‘Rig’ Sale.
1871 Overland Monthly Aug. 116/1 A rig sale is, generally, a conspiracy between needy brokers and dealers, who furnish an empty house between them, and, by bidding for articles themselves, entice the unwary to bid beyond them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rign.6

Brit. /rɪɡ/, U.S. /rɪɡ/
Forms: 1800s– rig, 1900s– rigg.
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown.The following examples seem to show borrowing of this fish name into post-classical Latin from a vernacular language, presumably English; if so, they imply much earlier currency of this word: 1547 Act 1 Edw. VI vii. m 5 pisces regaɫ, viz' sturgions balenas catas porpec' delphinos regges graspes.1549 Act 3 Edw. VI ii. m 40 pisces regaɫ videlt sturgiones balenas cetas porpec' delphinos rigges graspes.
A small shark or dogfish; esp. (a) British regional the tope ( Galeorhinus galeus) and huss ( Scyliorhinus species); (b) New Zealand the gummy shark, Mustelus antarcticus.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > family Carcharinidae > galeorhinus galeus (dogfish)
tope1686
rig1887
vaalhaai1947
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 128 Rig, the common tope. Galeus vulgaris.—Folkestone.
1927 Glasgow Herald 7 Sept. 12/7 On the south-east coasts of England a species of small shark, known locally as ‘rigg’, is caught on strong lines baited with mackerel.
1936 Handbk. for N.Z. (A.N.Z.A.A.S.) 71 Mustelus antarcticus: Common dogfish, pioke (Auckland), rigg (Canterbury).
1963 Newnes Encycl. Angling 232/2 Until recently, dogfish have been sold in the shops under the more glamorous name of rock salmon... Today, the recommended names in the retail shops are huss, flake, and rig.
1991 Dominion (Wellington) 12 Aug. 9 During the 1989–90 fishing year, rig landed from boats..was misdeclared as ghost shark, a non-quota species.
2002 J. Henriques & R. Winter Local Authority Prosecutions xviii. 186 (table) Dogfish or Flake or Huss or Rigg. All species of Galeorhinus..Mustelus..[and] Scyliorhinus; Galeus melastomus Rafin.; Squalus acanthias (L).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rigv.1

Brit. /rɪɡ/, U.S. /rɪɡ/, Scottish English /rɪɡ/, Irish English /rɪɡ/
Forms: late Middle English–1500s rygge, 1500s rige, 1500s–1600s rigge, 1500s ryg, 1600s (1800s– regional) rig; also Scottish pre-1700 rig.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rig n.1
Etymology: < rig n.1 Compare ridge v.Earlier currency may be implied by rigging n.1
Now Scottish, English regional (northern and east midlands), and Irish English.
†1. transitive. To provide (a building) with a roof ridge; to provide (a roof) with a ridge. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > roof > provide rooftop with edge or coping
rig1440
ridge1445
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 433 Ryggyn [Winch. Ryggynge] howsys, porco.
a1525 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 228/26 He biggit and thekit it [sc. the roof of the church] with sclait and riggit it with stane.
1545–6 in Fenland Notes & Queries (1898–1900) 4 313 Itm..ffor thakyng and rygyng the howse..ijs.
1601 in W. M. Metcalfe Charters & Documents Burgh of Paisley (1902) 243 Libertie to cast turvis in tyme cuming to rig thair houssis necessar to be rigit.
1678 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, & Event Bks. (1881) II. 187 Willm. Clay points, rigs his house.
1690 Burgery of Sheffield 246 Paid for poynting and rigging the Almshouse, 7s. 7d.
1824 G. Smith Home's Douglas 105 The housie's mine, I paid for bigging't And whan't was up I paid for rigging't.
2. transitive. To plough (land) in rigs (rig n.1 6a). Also with up. Cf. earlier winter-rig vb. at winter n.1 Compounds 2, ridge v. 2. Also intransitive. Sc. National Dict. records this sense as still in use in southern Scotland in 1968.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (transitive)] > throw up ridges
rig?1523
ridge?1530
to trench up1763
upset1764
to lay up1842
hill1884
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (intransitive)] > throw up ridges
ridge?1530
rig1886
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. viiiv In the begynnyng of March rigge it vp agayn.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. viiiv Than let him cast his barley erth, and shortely after to rigge it agayne.
1853 W. Watson Poems 82 Her fertile braes are rigget by the ploughman lad.
1884 ‘Cruck-a-Leaghan’ & ‘Slieve Gallion’ Lays & Legends N. Irel. 46 But drain it, an' dig it, an' crap it, an' rig it, As deep, an' as nate as she cud, like a man.
1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. (at cited word) They're beginning to rig for swedes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rigv.2

Brit. /rɪɡ/, U.S. /rɪɡ/
Forms: 1500s rygge, 1500s–1600s rigge, 1500s–1600s ryg, 1500s– rig, 1600s–1700s (1800s English regional) rigg; Scottish pre-1700 rayg, pre-1700 reg, pre-1700 1700s–1800s rigg, pre-1700 1700s– rig.
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown. Earlier currency is probably suggested by rigging n.2, and similar formations in rag- are attested still earlier (see discussion at rigging n.2), although it is uncertain whether they are related and if so how. Compare also reek v.2Many suggestions have been made for the origin for this word, including derivation < Middle Dutch rigen to lace, to baste, sew together with large stitches (earlier riën , rijen ; Dutch rijgen ; compare especially in nautical senses ‘to latch together two pieces of sailcloth’, ‘to latch a bonnet to a sail with a lasket’ (17th cent.)) or its cognate Middle Low German rīgen , rīen to separate off a strip, to draw a line, to thread onto a cord (15th cent. or earlier; ultimately < the Germanic base of row n.1). Italian rigano a sort of cordage (1321 or earlier in a text from Venice; now in senses ‘knot by which the end of running rigging is fixed’, ‘rope which reinforces the edge of a fishing net’ (both in 19th cent. glossaries)), of uncertain origin, has also been proposed as an etymon, but confirmatory evidence is lacking. A Scandinavian origin has been widely suggested but is difficult to support: Norwegian rigga, Swedish rigga, Danish rigge are all attested in the nautical senses covered here, although it is generally accepted that these verbs are ultimately < English; the same does not appear to be true of Norwegian rigga to bind or wrap up, Swedish regional rigga på to harness a horse (probably < the same Germanic base as wry v.1), although these present problems of chronology as well as semantics. For a full discussion of these and other theories, see further B. Sandahl Middle Eng. Sea Terms (1982) III. 84–9.
I. In nautical and related uses.
1. Nautical.
a. transitive. To prepare (a sailing ship or boat) for going to sea; spec. to set up the sails and rigging of (a sailing vessel). Also figurative.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > fit out or equip > rig
rig1500
reek1562
clothe1714
1500 Traduction & Mariage Princesse (Pynson) sig. aii The two Berkis which the kinge our souereyne lorde caused tobe rigged anenst the last viage.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 691/2 He intendeth or it be aught longe to make sayle, for his shyppe is rygged all redy.
1573 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (rev. ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. A.iiv I haue repayred and rygged the Shyp of knowledge, and haue hoyssed vp the sayles of good fortune.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie i. 2 Then did hee cause to be rygged and trimmed a greate number of shippes.
1595 Blanchardine & Eglantine ii. xiii. sig. K2 He rigged certaine ships wherein he and diuers of his Lordes embarqued themselues.
1608 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Serres Gen. Inventorie Hist. France (1611) 454 Hee rigges a great fleet of gallies to seize vpon the Islands.
a1631 J. Donne Elegie VI in Poems (1633) 52 No familie Ere rigg'd a soule for heavens discoverie.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures vi. 14 After that he caused some of the vessels of the fleet to be rigged.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vii. 190 They rig their Ships but untowardly,..and are as meanly furnished with Warlike Provisions.
1738 S. Johnson London 247 Lest ropes be wanting..To rig another convoy for the king.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Girt-line The girt-line is therefore the first rope employed to rig a ship.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 68 He rigged a fleet of ships and led on board A numerous host.
1911 J. C. Lincoln Woman-haters v. 89 I've caulked her up and rigged her, after a fashion. Now she might float, if she had a chance.
1968 ‘D. Torr’ Treason Line 117 A young man..was rigging a Redwing.
1998 Cruising World Oct. 206/1 (advt.) We rigged the boat, short-tacked out a narrow channel in flukey air into a strong, fresh breeze.
†b. intransitive. Of a vessel: to be prepared in this way. Obsolete.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [verb (intransitive)] > be rigged
rig1536
1536 J. Hutton Let. 9 Oct. in J. Gairdner Lett. & Papers Reign Henry VIII (1888) (modernized text) XI. 251 The ships being still at anchor at Dieppe... Four left for Habre Newiffe; the fifth is rigging in Dieppe haven.
1614 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1849) (modernized text) I. 337 Eight of the king's ships are rigging and making ready for sea.
1688 Bp. G. Burnet Exped. Prince of Orange 2 Two of the Prince's principal Men of War were forced to new Rigg at Helversluse.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 229 Ship's Pinnaces..sometimes..rig with a sliding-gunter.
1805 C. Collingwood Let. 28 Oct. in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1846) VII. 218 In the gale the Royal Sovereign and Mars lost their foremasts, and are now rigging anew.
1834 C. Martelli Naval Officer's Guide 175 During the time the ship is rigging, there should be different parties of men selected.
c. transitive. With adverbs, as forth, out, up, etc. Also figurative.
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1553–4 Dundee Burgh Court Bks. II. f. 286v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Rig To rig furth the said schip in merchandis or dalefaring.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 97 At ech time that the King passeth ouer the sea, the Portes ought to rigge vp fiftie and seuen ships.
1593 T. Lodge Life & Death William Long Beard (Hunterian Club) 52 Rigging out two warlike Gallies, he sailed with them into the great sea.
1628 Heavens Glory 57 New rig me vp, lest wallowing I orewhelme; Thy Mercy be my Main-mast; And for Sayles My Sighs.
a1632 T. Middleton & J. Webster Any Thing for Quiet Life (1662) i. sig. B2v Your Lordship minding to rigg forth a Ship to trade for the East-Indies.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 544 With a greater Fleet, which was to be built and rigged up in Spain.
1737 S. Berington Mem. G. di Lucca 31 He had made a shift to rig out a small Vessel.
1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 269/2 Long may he pique himself in rigging out an old ship for his run to the bottom.
1853 J. Henry My Bk. Six Photogr. 162 Thou must even beneath the stars of winter Rig out thy fleet.
1960 J. S. Watson Reign George III xvii. 456 The British sailors swarmed into Copenhagen's dockyards and hastily rigged up eighteen Danish ships..[and] sailed them back to England.
2000 R. S. Peffer Logs of Dead Pirates Society xvi. 135 Large granite wharves had been built specifically for rigging out the tall ships.
d. transitive. With complement specifying a particular type or configuration of masts, sails, spars, etc. Frequently in passive. Cf. rigged adj.1 1b.
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1642 H. Bond Boate Swaines Art 15 Suppose our supposed ship of 63. foote by the keele, it being winter, should not be Rigged with Topgallant masts.
1736 S. Humphreys tr. N. A. Pluche Spectacle de la Nature III. 10 This Vessel is rigged after the Hoy-Manner, with a Mast to let down.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 236 Cat, a vessel, used by the Northern Nations of Europe, with three masts and a bowsprit, rigged similar to an English ship; having, however, pole-masts and no top-gallant sails.
1836 L. Hebert Engineer's & Mechanic's Encycl. II. 15 A bomb-ketch is a vessel rigged ketch fashion, and equipped for firing mortars.
1875 tr. J. Verne Mysterious Island in Scribner's Monthly Mar. 601 They would build a decked boat, and Pencroff would rig it as a cutter.
1883 Harper's Mag. Dec. 146/1 I had rigged her with a leg-of-mutton sail.
1916 Mannin No. 7. 419 A number of Cornish fishermen, whose boats were rigged with two masts and two lug sails.
1956 Mariner's Mirror 42 24 Some ships were rigged ‘baldheaded’, with double topgallantsails, but no royals.
1994 E. L. Doctorow Waterworks 131 It was rigged as a sloop with linen sails and a swinging boom, brass capstans, and a spoked helm that really worked the rudder.
e. transitive. Aeronautics. To make ready the supporting wires or cables of (a balloon or biplane); to adjust the wings of (an aeroplane) or the sails of (a sailplane). Also: to adjust (an aileron or other part of an aircraft).
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > construction and servicing aircraft or spacecraft > construct and service aircraft or spacecraft [verb (transitive)] > assemble or adjust parts
riga1855
a1855 C. B. Mansfield Aerial Navigation (1877) i. iv. 55 Another reason of itself sufficient for the rejection of this mode of rigging the air-craft [sc. a balloon].
1918 F. H. Colvin Aircraft Mech. Handbk. ii. 22 The greater the angle of incidence of the lifting surface in front, the more the controlling surface will have to be rigged down.
1945 R. von Mises Theory Flight xvii. 529 One should have about 6°12′ on the starboard and about 5°48′ on the port wing. This can easily be reached in the process of ‘rigging’ the airplane.
1967 Pop. Sci. Aug. 51 Its two short wings make it..easy to handle on the water... It has modern wing spoilers rather than ailerons. Ailerons must be rigged to travel simultaneously in opposite directions.
1978 Sci. Amer. Nov. 135/1 The Wrights also flew the machine as a glider, experimenting by rigging it with a dihedral angle.
2005 S. Davis Following Yellow Line xxiv. 191 I've always been curious about how the pilots go about rigging their sailplanes.
†2. transitive. To prepare or make (an army or navy) ready for active service. Also intransitive: (of an army or navy) to get ready. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > levy or mobilize
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host1297
arear1366
araisec1386
raisea1425
to call to account1434
rearc1450
levyc1500
riga1513
erect1520
leave1590
to call to arms1592
compound1614
re-embody1685
mobilize1853
remobilize1886
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxliiii. f. clxvv Wherefore he rygged his Army & drewe towarde theym.
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin iii. 150 He had not redeliuered the two carrackes, nor suffered to rigge a nauie for the kinge at Genes, but onely restored the vessells taken at Rapale.
1604 W. Traheron tr. P. Mexia Hist. Rom. Emperors 401 Whereupon hee mustred vp his valiant Vandales..and armed and rigged the mightiest armie and Nauie that he euer before had leuied.
1653 E. Chamberlayne tr. Rise & Fall Count Olivares (new ed.) 34 One part whereof was employed towards the raising of Armies that were soon lost, and to rigge Navies that were soon destroyed.
1698 tr. Present State Europe Dec. 415 The noise of Ponti's squadron that was rigging at Brest.
3.
a. transitive. Nautical. To set up (masts, sails, etc.); spec. to fix in place or make ready for use, esp. by adjusting ropes. Also with out, up.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > adapt or adjust [verb (transitive)] > adjust for use or smooth operation
rig1627
fix1663
tune1916
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 18 It is proper to say, The Mast is well rigged, or the Yard is well rigged..when all the Ropes are well sised to a true proportion of her burthen.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 23 He..got down the broken Main-top-sail Yard, and got up and rigg'd another in its Place.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. viii. 378 The Spaniards in a bravado rigged their sprit-sail-yard fore and aft likewise.
1759 Life & Real Adventures Hamilton Murray I. xiii. 160 His bolt-sprit would hardly be fit to rig out a flying jib for the first month.
1866 J. Macgregor Thousand Miles in Rob Roy Canoe ii. 17 In the midst of the waves I even managed to rig up the mast and sail.
1879 C. H. Eden White Lily of Great Sahara ii. 26 On both gangways, and on the paddle-boxes, were groups of active men..working hard to rig the spars and tackles by which the large flat-bottomed boats..were turned over and launched into the water.
1938 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 42 868 Later I introduced a gaff mainsail in which the gaff could be controlled, and still later..I rigged a bipod mast.
1960 D. Pope Decision at Trafalgar xix. 231 Rotheram gave the orders to rig out and hoist away the studding-sails.
1997 J. J. Isler & P. Isler Sailing for Dummies vi. 108 Because the greasy chain or cable from the hoist can mess up your sails.., always rig the sails after the boat is in the water.
b. transitive. Nautical. To cause (a boom) to run out; to draw (a boom) in. Also intransitive: (of a boom) to be run out or drawn in. Also in extended use.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > support (an amount of) sail [verb (intransitive)] > rig in or out (of boom)
rig1769
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > carry specific amount of sail [verb (transitive)] > run boom in or out
rig1769
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Horse The sailors..are loosing, reefing or furling the sails, rigging out the studding-sail booms, &c.
1777 W. Hutchinson Treat. Pract. Seamanship 21 When we rigged in the boom, it lay snug fore and aft on one side.
1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 14 When the breast-backstays are to be rigged in, cast off the lanyard.
1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 22 Rig the boom out until the inner sheave-hole is clear of the cap.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 575 A boom called a ring-tail boom, which rigs in and out upon the main or driver boom.
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 212 The boom is rigged in immediately the sail is canted clear.
1913 A. W. Nelson Yankee Swanson 51 We were going to rig out the jib-boom and the royal yards were to be sent aloft.
1984 J. Harland Seamanship in Age of Sail x. 162/1 To rig the boom out, a tackle was hooked between the heel of the boom and the strap of the inner iron.
c. transitive. Originally Nautical. To assemble and adjust (equipment, a machine, etc.) in readiness for use; to prepare for working; to put in order. Also with up.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (transitive)] > prepare apparatus or machinery
rig1797
to tune up1901
to set up1922
1797 T. Connelly & T. Higgins Diccionario Nuevo y Completo de las Lenguas Española é Inglesa I. 138/3 To rig the capstan, guarnir el cabrestante.
1836 F. Marryat Pirate iv, in Pirate & Three Cutters 31 We must rig the pumps.
1860 All Year Round 28 July 384 We rigged the machine, and set hotly to work.
1917 Pop. Mech. Jan. 85 It requires little labor to remove a reel and rig the derrick.
?1977 W. J. Bursey Undaunted Pioneer 43 First when he got the [radio] set he rigged it up and heard a man speak.
1990 Independent 25 July 15/2 Rock concerts developed a lighting instrument that was very easy to rig.
2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 15 Dec. ii. 35/1 Timothy Fuller, the head flyman, who is in charge of rigging the scenery and lighting.
d. transitive. Originally Nautical. To fix or fasten to (also on to) something, esp. by means of rope or wire.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > condition of being fast bound or firmly fixed > make fast [verb (transitive)] > fasten or fix
steek?c1335
stick1372
ficchec1374
plant1381
inficche1382
fix14..
graft1531
graff1536
stick1586
rivet1600
stay1627
rig1835
splice1847
fixate1885
1835 Sailor's Mag. July 348/2 While rigging it [sc. the bethel flag] to the halyards, Mr. Allan was much amused at the conjectures and inquiries of the crew.
1844 W. H. Hall & W. D. Bernard Narr. Voy. & Services Nemesis I. ix. 160 Long, narrow canoes..with upper works rigged on to them.
1857 New Eng. Farmer May 206/1 A flag staff seventy feet high, bearing a banner thirty feet in length, rigged to a wagon.
1920 S. Lewis Main St. ix. 103 A week later Cy rigged a tic-tac to a window of the living room.
1970 BioScience 20 1054/2 Two rope and pulley systems were rigged to a tall Goethalsia tree.
2005 M. Roach Spook iii. 95 He rigged a seven-by-three-foot platform to a Toledo model 8132 electronic digital indicator, a quartet of load cells, and a computer.
4. Originally Nautical.
a. transitive. With up (also out). To construct, put together, or place in position, hastily or as a makeshift.
ΚΠ
1726 N. Uring Hist. Voy. & Trav. 9 It is customary in all Countries where there are little or no Tides, to rig out a Top Mast..and have a rope fastened to the End of it for mooring their Boats.
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 69 Ships holds are well ventilated..by means of a sail, rigged out from the deck to below, like a funnel.
1841 B. Hall Patchwork II. v. 65 As if they had been rigging up a stage for Pantaloon.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iii. 41 Outside these windows, Drysdale had rigged up hanging gardens.
1873 T. B. Aldrich Marjorie Daw 75 He rigged himself up a fishing-pole.
1916 Fur News Dec. 16/1 In my opinion the cubs were too small as yet to be chained up, so I rigged out a separate box for each one of them.
1950 Newsweek 14 Aug. 51 In dry climates it is possible to rig up a primitive but highly effective cooling system, called a ‘swamp cooler’.
2006 J. Updike Terrorist v. 289 As I understand it, they used to rig up explosives inside the Cong's spider holes and seal them in and detonate them with these.
b. transitive. Without construction.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > construct
workOE
dighta1175
to set upc1275
graitha1300
formc1300
pitchc1330
compoundc1374
to put togethera1387
performc1395
bigc1400
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complexion1413
erect1417
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construe1490
to lay together1530
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to piece together1572
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to put together1591
to set together1603
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complex1659
construct1663
structurate1664
structure1664
confect1677
to put up1699
rig1754
effect1791
structuralize1913
1754 Muses Delight I. 292/1 The leak we've found, it cannot pour fast, We've lighten'd her a foot or more; Up and rig a jury fore-mast, She rights! she rights!
a1771 S. Parkinson Jrnl. Voy. South Seas (1773) 155 In this dilemma, we first hoisted out our small boats..to tow her off, and got a pairs of sweeps rigged out of the gun-room ports, to turn her head about.
1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer II. v. 141 I rigged jury-masts: I made sail on them.
1850 H. T. Cheever Whale & his Captors iv. 78 An ingenious Frenchman..once rigged swivels in the heads of his boats.
1877 W. R. Alger Life E. Forrest I. 109 He blacked himself up and rigged his costume quite to his content.
1941 J. Steinbeck & E. F. Ricketts Sea of Cortez xv. 152 That night we rigged a lamp..and hung it close down to the water.
1967 R. Silverberg Light for World i. xviii Using a horseshoe magnet, Faraday rigged a means of rotating a flat copper disk between its poles.
2003 M. McCafferty Second Helpings 89 The average PHS dreg would never jeopardize losing his liquor store deposit by rigging a bomb out of a rented keg.
2009 Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard 22 May 10/2 If I don't rig some sort of shelter I fear the sun's rays pouring through the glass will frizzle the poor bird on her nest.
5. transitive. To modify or adapt (an apparatus, machine, etc.) for use as something else. Frequently with up.
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1871 in Rep. Condition Sea Fisheries South Coast New Eng. 1871–2 (1873) 17 There used to be a trap west of Beaver Tail light, which picked them [sc. scup] up first. Now they have rigged it as a pound.
1901 Bull. Pharmacy Aug. 332/2 We had a five-gallon tinned copper percolator,..and as it was rarely used I rigged it up as a syrup apparatus, rather than buy or have an apparatus made for this purpose.
1954 Science 12 Feb. 207/2 Drs. Baldwin and Dewhirst used a new telescope, rigged up as an interferometer.
2006 T. Jentz Strange Piece of Paradise iii. 395 We strolled past two dilapidated trailers, an old engine from a submarine rigged up as a generator.
II. In extended uses, esp. of persons.
6.
a. transitive. To provide or cover (a person) with clothing; to dress, clothe (frequently in or with a particular garment, style, etc.). Also more generally: to get (a person) ready. Also intransitive.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (intransitive)]
clothe1393
trick?1532
riga1535
dress1673
busk1722
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)]
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clothec950
shride971
aturnc1220
begoa1225
array1297
graith1297
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geara1325
cleadc1325
adightc1330
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tirea1375
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addressa1393
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invest1540
vesture1555
suit1577
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vest1582
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habit1594
to make ready1596
caparison1597
skin1601
shadow1608
garment1614
riga1625
raiment1656
garb1673
equip1695
to fit out1722
encase1725
tog1793
trick1821
to fig out1825
enclothe1832
toilet1842
to get up1858
habilitate1885
tailor1885
kit1919
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (reflexive)]
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arraya1400
richc1400
to make ready?a1425
enhabitc1485
revestera1500
dress1533
suit1576
rig1662
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xvii. sig. L.iiii Whan he beholdeth hymself richly appareled and the begger rygged in hys ragges.
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes ii. v. 42 in Wks. II P. Iv. Your Fortunate Princesse, Vncle, is long a comming. P. Ca. She is not rigg'd, Sir.
1662 S. Pepys Diary 7 Apr. (1970) III. 61 While he was rigging himself, he bid his man listen at the door.
1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 107 She riggs her self out in the best manner she can.
1721 J. Swift Epil. at Theatre-Royal We'll Rigg in Meath-Street, Egypt's hauty Queen.
1755 Connoisseur (1756) No. 77. 458 The draggled street walker can rig herself with a clean smock, a linen gown, and a hat smartly cocked up.
1774 Westm. Mag. 2 429 If they can't rigg a Captain—a Frenchman they'll dress.
1813 T. Moore Intercepted Lett. ii. 50 Else, though the P—— be long in rigging [etc.].
1819 J. H. Vaux Memoirs I. 241 The liberty-men were busily employed in rigging themselves..in their best togs.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 173 ‘I'll board him, but I can't rig him,’ is often said by a master of his apprentice.
1911 I. Brennan Mountain State Gleanings 58 Rig yourself from head to heel in everything brand new.
1947 Times 22 Oct. 7/1 (advt.) It was time she too had something to rig herself in.
1979 N. Wallington Fireman! iii. 43 It was time to wash yet again and rig in undress uniform in time to be officially relieved at 6pm parade.
2008 E. Chupack Silver xx. 237 I took Jim off the boom and the men fully rigged him in calico and silk.
b. transitive. With out (also up). Also figurative.In quot. 1807: to adorn.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)]
wrya901
clothec950
shride971
aturnc1220
begoa1225
array1297
graith1297
agraithc1300
geara1325
cleadc1325
adightc1330
apparel1362
back1362
shape1362
attirea1375
parela1375
tirea1375
rayc1390
addressa1393
coverc1394
aguisea1400
scredea1400
shrouda1400
bedightc1400
buskc1400
harnessc1400
hatterc1400
revesta1449
able1449
dressa1450
reparel?c1450
adub?1473
endue?a1475
afaite1484
revestera1500
beclothe1509
trimc1516
riga1535
invest1540
vesture1555
suit1577
clad1579
investure1582
vest1582
deck1587
habit1594
to make ready1596
caparison1597
skin1601
shadow1608
garment1614
riga1625
raiment1656
garb1673
equip1695
to fit out1722
encase1725
tog1793
trick1821
to fig out1825
enclothe1832
toilet1842
to get up1858
habilitate1885
tailor1885
kit1919
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Four Plays in One in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ffffffff3v/1 An endlesse troop of Tailors, Mercers, Embroiderers,..All Occupations..that serve to rig the bodie out with braverie.
1676 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer iv. i You shall see, how I have rigg'd my Squire out, with the remains of my shipwrack'd Wardrobe.
1688 S. Penton Guardian's Instr. 31 He riggs himself out with a new Suit.
1735 J. Swift Death & Daphne in Wks. II. 403 A Consult of Coquets below Was call'd, to rig him out a Beau.
a1754 H. Fielding Fathers (1778) i. 15 Once in seven years came up Madam in the stage coach, to..rigg out herself and family.
1807 Salmagundi 13 Feb. 49 Take of..ribbons, and artificial flowers, as much as will rig out the congregation of a village-church.
1862 W. M. Thackeray Philip I. 174 My old blacks show the white seams so, that you must..rig me out with a new pair.
1870 J. P. Smith Widow Goldsmith's Daughter xxvi. 413 I can rig her up in Mary Ann's old duds.
1937 L. C. Knights in Scrutiny Sept. 142 Conventional attitudes are rigged out in a conventional vocabulary and conventional images.
1959 P. D. Cummins tr. D. Dolci Rep. from Palermo 31 Here's the lone wolf, for instance, who rigs himself out in a blue jersey and a peaked cap with an anchor on it.
1998 Guardian (Nexis) 26 June 8 Mrs Manning..takes nearly an hour to rig herself out in whalebone corset, bustle, pantaloons and other defences.
c. transitive. With out (also up). To dress (a person) in smart or formal clothes; to dress up. Also more generally: to get (a person) ready for a formal occasion. Also intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > dress up or dress elaborately
disguisec1325
quaintisea1333
guisea1400
to dress up?a1513
deck?1521
garnisha1535
trim1594
gallant1614
sprug1622
dizena1625
to dress out1649
bedizen1661
rig1723
trim1756
bedress1821
gaudy1838
buck up1854
garb1868
clobber1887
mum1890
to do up1897
dude1899
toff1914
lair1941
1723 C. Walker Authentick Mem. Sally Salisbury viii. 112 Sally..made all possible Expedition to rig herself out to the best Advantage, and..made her Appearance in a Habit fitter for a Drawing-Room, than a Brothel.
1760 Felton Garland in Ritson's Yorks. Garland (1809) x. 72 To rig her up from toe to toe, And deck her like queen Flora.
1831 A. Royall Southern Tour 235 He told her..that she must rig up a little, while he went for me.
1885 A. Brassey In Trades 504 Great were the efforts made to ‘rig-out’ the performers.
1886 S. Baring-Gould Court Royal xi I allow you a quarter of an hour for rigging yourself out.
1907 W. McCay Little Nemo in Slumberland 31 Mar. in Little Nemo 1905–1914 (2000) 85/3 [Nemo] These pirates are rich with all these jewels... [Flip] Let's rig ourselves out and have some fun!
1994 This Country Canada Spring 14 (caption) Do you mind that time a few years ago? When we all rigged out and ended up over at Gene's.
2009 People (Nexis) 25 Jan. 14 Why does Andrews need £1,000 to rig herself out? There are bargains galore in the recession.
7.
a. transitive. To provide or fit with something; to prepare by providing necessary equipment; to equip with. Also with up. Also figurative.Quot. a1625 may represent a figurative use of sense 6a; cf. a1625 at sense 6b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide or supply (a person or thing) with anything > equip or outfit
frameOE
dightc1275
fayc1275
graith1297
attire1330
purveyc1330
shapec1330
apparel1366
harnessc1380
ordaina1387
addressa1393
array1393
pare1393
feata1400
point1449
reparel?c1450
provide1465
fortify1470
emparel1480
appoint1490
deck?15..
equip1523
trim1523
accoutre1533
furnish1548
accommodate1552
fraught1571
suit1572
to furnish up1573
to furnish out1577
rig1579
to set out1585
equipage1590
outreik1591
befit1598
to furnish forth1600
fita1616
to fit up1670
outrig1681
to fit out1722
mount?1775
outfit1798
habilitate1824
arm1860
to fake out1871
heel1873
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin ii. 114 The king..had dispatched Peron de la Basche to rigge in the hauen of Ville franche neare to Nice an armie at sea of two thowsand Gascoins and Swyzzers with prouision of vittells.
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. Nv Therupon..her wardrop was richly rigd,..and presented she was..to the countesse.
a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) iii. i. sig. F3 Your noble heart..Rigd round about with vertue.
1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 23 in Justa Edouardo King That fatall and perfidious bark, Built in th'eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xviii. 140/2 Termes used by Gunners... Rigging a peece, is to haue it fitted with all thing necessary for service.
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. xi. 190 In others [the mouth is] strongly rigged with Jaws and Teeth; to gnaw, and scrape out their Food.
1748 Tryal Thomas Grimes 28 A cunning old woman can vamp, and rig out an old Affair, with all the Signs and Symptoms of a new unrifled Commodity.
1820 W. Combe Second Tour Dr. Syntax xxvii. 96 He could rig With friz and curl the Doctor's wig.
1841 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 198 I rigged up Charley Page of Hurst with powder and shot.
1878 W. Besant & J. Rice By Celia's Arbour II. ii. 18 The Captain went round rigging up the curtains with brighter ribbons.
1909 Chatterbox 179/1 He proposed to place one of these balloons at each end of a strong staff, the space between them being rigged with ship's sails, and ropes for trimming them.
1971 N. Tosches Leuk 16 Sept. in Nick Tosches Reader (2000) 16 We've all heard stories about terminal cancer wards rigged with one-way whorehouse mirrors.
2000 Denver Post 17 Dec. f5/2 Adventure Ridge also has thrill-sledding—a very zippy sled rigged with skis and ridden stomach-down, face-first.
†b. transitive. With out (also up). To fit (a person or thing) out; to put in the correct condition; to make ready. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 14 For these to pretend to rig out their small ones for an University Life, prove oft-times a very great inconvenience and dammage to the Church.
1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum ii. iv. 230 The same Cardinal from these words..found out a Masse, compleatly rigged out for service.
1710 C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal v. 59 Faith I'll throw thee in one twenty Brace of Pounds to rig an honest House up of thy own; and roost no more in Whores Nests.
1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 47 And ye'll rig out the auld tower a bit?
1885 Manch. Examiner 16 June 4/7 It would be easy for Lord Salisbury to rig out half a dozen Administrations.
1904 Rep. Iowa State Hort. Soc. 1903 75 What is the yield [of the dewberry field]?.. What does it cost to rig it out?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† rigv.3

Forms: 1500s rigg, 1500s ryg, 1500s rigge, 1500s rygge, 1500s–1600s rig.
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown.
Obsolete.
1.
a. intransitive. To make a thorough search of a place, receptacle, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > make a search [verb (intransitive)] > rummage or search thoroughly
ransackc1405
range1553
rig1565
rake1574
mouse1575
ferret1580
spoacha1585
rummage1625
scrimmage1843
fossick1871
roust1919
1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 2v Eft they ganne to digge, And in the bowells of the grounde, vnsaciably to rygge. For Riches cowcht and hydden.
?1624 G. Chapman tr. Hymn to Hermes in tr. Crowne Homers Wks. 69 Thou..Hast beene beseeging, House and Man together, Rigging, and rifeling all waies.
a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) ii. iii. 216 I imagined there might be found some Essences about him, and therefore, rigging in his pockets and finding what I search'd for, made him take the half of a little glasse bottle.
b. transitive. To search (a place, collection of things, receptacle, etc.) thoroughly, esp. with intent to rob; to ransack.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)] > search a place or receptacle thoroughly
asearch1382
searcha1387
ransacka1400
ripea1400
upripe?a1400
riflec1400
ruffle1440
gropea1529
rig1572
rake1618
rummage1621
haul1666
fish1727
call1806
ratch1859
to turn over1859
to go through ——1861
rifle1894
rancel1899
to take apart1920
fine-tooth comb1949
1572 in R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Eliz. (1630) ii. 37 Whereas I saw all things to be curiously searched and rigged, I commaunded that Packet to be burnt.
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 36v If he presume to enter our house, and rigge euery corner, searching more then belongs to his office, we..turne him away.
c1610–15 Some Notes before Liues in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 22 Her house..was rigged by them [sc. Goths].
2. transitive. To steal (another person's property). Also with away. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)]
atbraidOE
benimOE
fornimOE
to reach upOE
reaveOE
bilacchea1325
to take away1372
stealc1374
privea1387
beneme1387
reach?a1400
deprivec1400
subduce1434
embezzle1469
pluckc1475
fortakea1500
raima1500
devest1538
rig1573
imbolish1592
exact1660
drain1673
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 13v Some riggs the plow, some milkes the kow.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 19v Some prouleth for fewell, & some away rig, fat goose & the capon.
3. transitive. To strip (a person) of something.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of)
benimc890
to do of ——eOE
bedealc1000
disturbc1230
bereavec1275
reave?a1300
acquitc1300
benemec1300
deprivec1330
privea1382
subvertc1384
oppressc1395
abridgea1400
to bate of, from1399
lessa1400
nakena1400
dischargea1425
privatec1425
to bring outa1450
abatec1450
sever?1507
spulyie?1507
denude1513
disable1529
distrain1530
destituec1540
destitutec1540
defalk1541
to turn out of ——1545
discomfit1548
wipe1549
nude1551
disannul?a1556
bereft1557
diminish1559
benoom1563
joint1573
uncase1583
rid1585
disarm1590
visitc1592
ease1600
dispatch1604
unfurnisha1616
rig1629
retrench1640
unbecomea1641
disentail1641
cashier1690
twin1722
mulct1748
fordo1764
to do out of ——1796
to cut out1815
bate1823
deprivate1832
devoid1878
1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime vii. 73 Some Chambermaids which hauing beene..well rigd of their maidenhead,..are sent ouer..to do penance.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

rigv.4

Brit. /rɪɡ/, U.S. /rɪɡ/
Forms:

α. 1500s rigge, 1500s–1600s (1800s– English regional) rig.

β. English regional (south-western) 1700s riggee, 1700s–1800s riggy.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Perhaps formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: wrig v.; rig n.1
Etymology: Origin uncertain. In sense 1 perhaps a variant of wrig v. or perhaps < rig n.2, with allusion to the behaviour typical of such animals; compare slightly later rig n.4 and slightly earlier riggish adj., rigsby n. In sense 2 partly also < rig n.1, in sense 2b perhaps as a later re-formation; for a semantic parallel compare back v. 11.
Now English regional (chiefly southern).
1. intransitive. Originally: to behave in an immodest or wanton manner (cf. rig n.4). In later use also in weakened sense: to romp, frolic; to act or play energetically and excitedly, esp. to clamber, climb about. Also in extended use with reference to animals.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > frolic [verb (intransitive)]
floxec1200
ragea1275
to dance antics1545
rig1570
to keep (also play) reaks1573
wanton1582
wantonize1592
frolic1593
wantonize1611
hoit1613
mird?c1625
to play about1638
freak1663
romp1665
rump1680
ramp1735
jinket1742
skylark1771
to cut up1775
rollick1786
hoity-toity1790
fun1802
lark1813
gammock1832
haze1848
marlock1863
train1877
horse1901
mollock1932
spadger1939
grab-ass1957
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Kii/2 To Rigge, lasciuire puellam.
1592 J. Lyly Midas i. ii Indeed if thou shouldest rigge vp and downe in our iackets, thou woudst be thought a very tomboy.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Treccolare, to prate, to prattle, to chat, to skould, to rig vp and downe as a gixie wench.
1614 A. S. in T. Overbury et al. Wife now Widdow Answer to Very Country Newes sig. G3 A young pullet, who often rigging from her nest, makes hot and cold beget rottennesse.
1626 W. Vaughan Golden Fleece ii. iv. 21 From a wanton that will rig, And delight to daunce a Iig, Sweet Angell free, deliuer me.
1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 59 Reul, to be rude: to behave ones self unmannerly, to Rig.
1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) ii. 15 Thee wut..coltee, and hobby, and riggy wi' enny Kesson Zoul.
1815 ‘J. Mathers’ Hist. Mr. John Decastro & Brother Bat II. i. 12 Will you never leave off galloping, dancing, rigging, and romping amongst the boys and girls?
1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. 64 Goo an' rig wi' I a mile ar two up over geät an' stile.
1886 W. H. Long Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. (at cited word) Zet down, I tell'ee! you'll tear yer clothes all to pieces, a riggen about zo.
1956 Recorded Interview (Brit. Libr. Sound Archive) (Survey Eng. Dial.: C908) (MS transcript) Track 65 [Somerset] And thick horses rigged and scratched and scratched, and got out.
†2.
a. transitive. coarse slang. Of a man: to have sexual intercourse with (a woman). Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with > specifically of a man
jape1382
overliec1400
swivec1405
foilc1440
overlay?a1475
bed1548
possess1592
knock1598
to get one's leg over1599
enjoy1602
poke1602
thrum1611
topa1616
riga1625
swingea1640
jerk1650
night-work1654
wimble1656
roger1699
ruta1706
tail1778
to touch up1785
to get into ——c1890
root1922
to knock up1934
lay1934
pump1937
prong1942
nail1948
to slip (someone) a length1949
to knock off1953
thread1958
stuff1960
tup1970
nut1971
pussy1973
service1973
a1625 J. Fletcher Wild-goose Chase (1652) iii. i. 34 That this Bilbo-Lord shall reap that Maiden-head That was my due; that he shall rig and top her.
b. transitive. Of a male quadruped: to mount (a female). Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) 247 Rig, among quadrupeds, to perform the act of supersaliency only, to back.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rigv.5

Brit. /rɪɡ/, U.S. /rɪɡ/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rig n.5
Etymology: < rig n.5 With sense 2 perhaps compare also rig v.2, or perhaps compare thimblerig n. In sense 1b perhaps partly by association with rag v.3
1. colloquial.
a. transitive. To deceive by way of a joke or trick; to hoax. Also with out. Now English regional and Irish English.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > trick, hoax [verb (transitive)]
jape1362
bejape1377
play1562
jugglea1592
dally1595
trick1595
bore1602
jadea1616
to fool off1631
top1663
whiska1669
hocus1675
to put a sham upon1677
sham1677
fun?1685
to put upon ——1687
rig1732
humbug1750
hum1751
to run a rig1764
hocus-pocus1774
cram1794
hoax1796
kid1811
string1819
to play off1821
skylark1823
frisk1825
stuff1844
lark1848
kiddy1851
soap1857
to play it (on)1864
spoof1889
to slip (something) over (on)1912
cod1941
to pull a person's chain1975
game1996
1732 C. Bodens Modish Couple ii. i. 20 Claris. But see, here comes one very opportunely for you to exercise your Talent on. Grinly... 'Gad I am glad he is here—we'll Rig him I' faith.
1823 Examiner 652/1 One of the party..announced himself at the several houses of those who were to be rigged (as the phrase elegantly expresses it) in the quality of footman.
1839 A. Bywater Sheffield Dial. (new ed.) 159 Thinks o, o'll rig the for wonce, oud lad.
1886 W. H. Long Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 58 I could zee he was gwyne to rig the wold man out.
1901 F. E. Taylor Folk-speech S. Lancs. Rig, to hoax.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 276/2 Rig, to tease, hoax.
b. transitive. To make fun of, mock, or tease; to play a trick on.Recorded most commonly in the United States, but also used sporadically in several regions of the British Isles.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > banter [verb (transitive)]
tauntc1530
railly1668
rally1672
banter1677
smoke1699
to get, take, or have a rise out of1703
joke1748
to run a rig1764
badinage1778
queer1778
quiz1787
to poke (one's) fun (at)1795
gammon1801
chaff1826
to run on ——1830
rig1841
trail1847
josh1852
jolly1874
chip1898
barrack1901
horse1901
jazz1927
to take the mike out ofa1935
to take the piss (out of)1945
to take the mickey (out of)1948
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)]
threac897
threapc897
begripea1000
threata1000
castea1200
chaste?c1225
takec1275
blame1297
chastya1300
sniba1300
withnima1315
undernima1325
rebukec1330
snuba1340
withtakea1340
reprovec1350
chastisea1375
arate1377
challenge1377
undertake1377
reprehenda1382
repreync1390
runta1398
snapea1400
underfoc1400
to call to account1434
to put downc1440
snebc1440
uptakec1440
correptc1449
reformc1450
reprise?c1450
to tell (a person) his (also her, etc.) own1450
control1451
redarguec1475
berisp1481
to hit (cross) one over (of, on) the thumbs1522
checkc1530
admonish1541
nip1548
twig?1550
impreve1552
lesson1555
to take down1562
to haul (a person) over the coals1565
increpate1570
touch1570
school1573
to gather up1577
task1580
redarguate?1590
expostulate1592
tutor1599
sauce1601
snip1601
sneap1611
to take in tax1635
to sharp up1647
round1653
threapen1671
reprimand1681
to take to task1682
document1690
chapter1693
repulse1746
twink1747
to speak to ——1753
haul1795
to pull up1799
carpet1840
rig1841
to talk to1860
to take (a person) to the woodshed1882
rawhide1895
to tell off1897
to tell (someone) where he or she gets off1900
to get on ——1904
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
strafe1915
tick1915
woodshed1935
to slap (a person) down1938
sort1941
bind1942
bottle1946
mat1948
ream1950
zap1961
elder1967
1841 J. Cobb Green Hand's First Cruise I. 155 Many of the first hours each night were spent by storytelling, singing, or ‘rigging’ each other, all endeavouring to join, in some way most congenial to his inclinations and spirits, to help pass off the time easily.
1871 G. P. R. Pulman Rustic Sketches (ed. 3) 130 We rig'd en till he was sabbidge.
1887 H. Caine Deemster I. x. 213 The biggest chap allis rigs the rest; and the next biggest chap allis rigs a littler one,..and the littlest chap, he gets rigged by everybody all round.
1899 A. H. Quinn Pennsylvania Stories 100 I rigged him about it once and he said he'd reform.
1915 J. Wilson Lowland Sc. Lower Strathearn 263/2 Rig, chaff, rag, joke, make fun of.
1968 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (2002) IV. 579/1 [To habitually play jokes on people: ‘He's always] Rigging’.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 276/2 Rig, to tease, hoax.
2.
a. transitive. To manipulate or manage in a fraudulent or underhand manner; (Stock Market) to cause (stock or stock prices) to increase or decrease in value through illegal, improper, or contrived methods.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > dishonesty > [verb (transitive)] > by falsifying
rig1826
fluff1902
society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > be unprincipled in [verb (transitive)] > manage in underhand manner
rig1826
wangle1888
fluff1957
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > befool, cheat, dupe [verb (transitive)] > alter or manipulate something for the purpose of deception
cook1636
doctor1750
fake1819
rig1826
ready2004
1826 Times 23 Feb. 2/6 Very few shares were paid upon in the Company, as it was intended to ‘rig’ them in the market. The ‘rig’ failed.
1851 Chambers's Jrnl. 15 105/1 Frequently the plate is rigged; more frequently the pictures.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 May 2/1 It is agreed to vote only for those names, and thus secure their return: this is what is termed ‘rigging the committees’.
1916 Q. Rev. Oct. 544 Unlike the German loans, the English have always been a ‘free’ market. There has been no Government syndicate to ‘rig’ prices. And unlike Germany we have maintained a free market in gold.
1966 Wall St. Jrnl. 25 July 1 ‘Top 40’ record lists that allegedly are rigged by gifts of free records by the carload.
1967 W. Soyinka Kongi's Harvest 72 I did my best to rig the results in favour of the state co-operatives.
1996 R. S. Kahn Other People's Blood 43 The State Department and INS not only knew it was happening, they rigged it so it would continue to happen.
b. transitive. Stock Market. To manipulate (the stock market), causing prices to rise or fall through illegal, improper, or contrived methods. Frequently in to rig the (stock) market. Also figurative.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (intransitive)] > specific operations
soften1565
to get out1728
bear1837
to rig the (stock) market1841
stag1845
cornera1860
to straddle the market1870
raid1889
to make a market1899
to job backwards1907
to mark to (the) market1925
short1959
daisy-chain1979
to pitch for ——1983
1841 Age 9 May 151/1 The Tea men..have been merrily rigging the market, so much that the prices have gone up about 4d. per lb.
1855 T. Taylor Still Waters 13 We must rig the market. Go in and buy up every share that's offered.
1860 Bentley's Q. Rev. Jan. 578 Quite capable..of conspiring to rig the stock-market, or of perpetrating any other sort of villainy.
1875 W. S. Jevons Money xvii. 210 About ten years ago it became the practice to rig the market as regards the shares of particular joint-stock banking companies.
1933 E. Pound ABC of Econ. v. i. 108 No one ever yet claimed to have sold short, or rigged the stock market, save in the hope of picking other men's pockets.
1978 A. Ryan in C. Hookway & P. Pettit Action & Interpretation 76 The only question at issue here is whether we should treat his account of social interaction as a story about how we rig the market, or as a story about how we engage in putting on a good show.
2001 H. Hodgkinson M. E. Durham Introd. p. vi He is notoriously greedy, rigging the Viennese bourse with calculated rumours and taking subventions from all and sundry.
2008 National Rev. (Nexis) 9 Sept. The feds have no business rigging the market to make investments in manufacturing more attractive than investments in something else.
c. transitive. Stock Market. With up. To cause (a publicly listed stock) to rise in value by manipulating the market in this way; to cause (stock prices) to increase artificially.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (transitive)] > increase (prices) > artificially
rig1865
1865 Shareholders' Guardian 25 Apr. 324/2 Speculation was running riot, and the very securities..in which the directors were trafficking were being ‘rigged’ up to a figure far beyond their intrinsic value.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Feb. 5/2 Mexican Railway stock..is rigged up to a ridiculous extent.
1907 Times 19 July 14/5 If they tried by artificial means to rig up prices, they would only bring fresh competitors.
1999 Indian Express (Mumbai) (Nexis) 23 Aug. It's easy to rig up prices when floating stocks are less.
3. transitive. To influence the outcome of (a race, match, election, etc.) by illegal or improper methods; to fix.
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society > authority > power > influence > have influence with [verb (transitive)] > exert influence upon
weighc1571
sway1593
subject1605
to have its end(s) upon1638
influence1658
ponderate1670
operate1674
to touch up1791
protocol1832
rig1908
1908 [implied in: C. Holland From North Foreland to Penzance ii. 66 The funds by which the members used to grant assistance to each other were the proceeds of ‘rigged’ elections. (at rigged adj.4 2)].
1933 Lit. Digest 1 July 40/3 ‘It's in the bag’ is an expression..to designate that prize-fights or horse-races have been rigged.
1935 Sun (Baltimore) 30 Oct. 1/2 The way the ‘election’ was rigged made an opposing farmer seem a sap.
1956 Fantastic Universe Apr. 58/1 Jack the Ripper..has slashed his way into the public eye today by apparently rigging the Beauty Contest in favor of the Earth girl.
1984 Economist 21 Jan. 45/2 The Congress party declared that the election had been rigged and has ever since been trying to decredit or oust him.
2005 Toronto Star (Nexis) 21 Oct. b10 The man accused of masterminding German soccer's match-fixing scandal says that it was a referee who came up with the idea to rig games.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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