a1640 P. Massinger Bashful Lover v. i. 71 in 3 New Playes (1655) Mart...Here he comes, With his Officers, new rigg'd. Alon. A looking-glass!

1656 P. Heylyn Full Relation Two Journeys ii. ii. 47 The day before she had been somewhat of the condition of a Kitchen-wench, but now so tricked up with scarfs, rings, and cross-garters, that you never saw a Whitsun-Lady better rigged.

1722 A. Ramsay Tale Three Bonnets iii. 21 Bawsy rises, quickly dresses, While Haste his youky Mind expresses: Now rigg'd, and Morning-Drink brought in, Thus did..Jouk begin.

1727 P. Longueville Hermit 96 Her Husband stands in the way rigg'd in all those engaging Qualifications, which did win her Affection.

1821 Sporting Mag. 9 27 Lenny showed afterwards equally well rigged-out.

1833 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 751/2 As we advanced into the town, almost every male we met was a soldier, all rigged and well dressed, too, in the French uniform.

1856 M. J. Holmes 'Lena Rivers 30 Nobody'd think any better of them for being rigged out in their very best meetin' gowns.

1878 M. A. Brown tr. J. L. Runeberg Nadeschda 36 Prince Woldmar looks around and sees The strangely rigged-out girl again.

1916 S. E. Bishop Reminisc. Old Hawaii 17 Platoons of gaily-rigged women..would stalk to the front and pronounce the lessons prepared.

1928 M. Johnson Safari i. 11 There..was Phishie, our old cook,..bravely rigged out in a new suit of khaki, in honor of the occasion.

2007 Times (Nexis) 9 May (Features) 7 Practically the only [politician] who is always impeccably rigged out is Michael Heseltine.

1883 All Year Round 20 Oct. 445/2 A waltz with the sylph of the morning, a cigar and a tumble-down in an attic, a barn, or a rigged up hayloft, or any other locality that may have been turned into a bedroom by the ingenious proprietors of the hotel.

1932 C. Isherwood Memorial i. iii. 36 The rigged-up stage was backed by sackcloth curtains.

1999 C. Joppke Immigration & Nation-State ii. 51 Castro allowed some 125,000 Cubans to sail freely, on rigged-up rafts and boats, to the shores of Florida, among them a good portion of criminals and mentally disturbed.

1915 Fordowner Nov. 46/1 I have my Ford pretty well rigged up, seat covers, shock absorbers, crown fenders, Rayfield carburetor, [etc.].

1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 97/2 Rigged up, all ready with auto, tools, pistol, machine gun, etc., for a criminal job.

2007 H. Coyle Pandora's Legion viii. 87 He tapped the holster. ‘We'll get you rigged up so you can carry this on a belt.’

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 21 A certayne kynde of [arrow] heades whyche men call hie rigged, creased, or shouldred heades.

1585 in C. E. Whitelaw Sc. Arms Makers (1977) 295 Six ungrathit Frenche riggit blaidis.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xix. 220/1 Setting him on an horse made of wood with a sharp rigged back.

1772 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. at Rig The deponent has also known them get divots off the ends of rigged ground.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Rigged, ribbed. ‘A rigged stocking.’

1847 J. Halliday Rustic Bard 138 My..riggit ribs, where snurk'lt skin is fatit To lanely hing.

1914 J. S. Angus Gloss. Shetland Dial. 108 Rigget, a sort of knitting in which the loops lie in rows or ridges, the same on both sides of the work.

1978 Akros Apr. 77 Across this rigged land lyin frozen haurd this December mornin.

1555 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 69 A browne rigged cowe.

1580 Edinb. Test. VII. f. 305^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Rig(g)it He leuis..to Richard Stewart the riggit kow.

1637 Brechin Test. V. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue f. 234 ^v Ane riggit stot.

1670 in J. Cameron Argyll Justiciary Rec. (1949) I. 10 Four kine of the collors following viz. ane browne riged kow [etc.].

1706 Foulis Acct. Bk. (S.H.S.) 276 The bull calfe of the riged kow.

1789 D. Sillar Poems 118 Your Quey an' rigget Cow.

1811 W. Aiton Gen. View Agric. Ayr 425 When a stripe of white run along the ridge of her back, she got the name of a rigged cow.

1877 W. Alexander Notes & Sketches Northern Rural Life x. 74 Groups of black ‘hummlies’, diversified by an occasional ‘bran'it’ or ‘rigget’ stirk.

1948 in N. Montgomerie & W. Montgomerie Sandy Candy & Other Sc. Nursery Rhymes 52 I met a drove o Hielan swine; Some o'm riggit ower the croon.

2001 V. Porter Brit. Cattle 29 (caption) Other colours and patterns [of Galloway cattle] used to include brindle, riggit (lineback) and brocket-faced (a large white blaze down the face).

1824 W. Carr Horæ Momenta Cravenæ Gloss. (at cited word) When a sheep is laid on his back, he is said to be rigged or ower-welted.

1892 M. C. F. Morris Yorks. Folk-talk 360 Sitha; ther's tweea o' t' au'd yows rigg'd yonder.

1956 M. Hartley & J. Ingilby Yorks. Dales 128 For sensing ‘owt amiss’, a sheep rigged, for example, his dogs are invaluable.

2007 Guardian (Nexis) 15 May (G2 section) 20 Once the sheep had reached the half roll, ie, with its legs directly upwards, there it would stay. This is an occasional problem with sheep and is locally called ‘rigged’ or ‘creest’.

1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. ii. 18 The young Elephant, or two-tayl'd steere, Or the rigd' Camell or the Fidling Frere.

1826 Times 23 Feb. 2/6 This was one of the very best ‘rigged’ Companies that ever were introduced into the share-market.

1901 Westm. Gaz. 10 Oct. 9/1 The natural result of..made markets, rigged shares, paid puffs in the newspapers, and all the other scandals.

1972 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 10 Aug. d7/5 Two mutual funds managers were indicted on federal charges of accepting $500,000 in bribes to add about $6 million in rigged securities to their firms' portfolios.

2003 C. C. Northrup Amer. Econ. 283/1 Before the market crashed in 1929, average folks viewed Wall Street as a murky world of insider information and rigged stocks.

1850 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 110 816 Prudent men will not go into a rigged market to buy land.

1887 D. J. Belgrave Luck at Diamond Fields 118 Afterwards,..rotten scrip and a rigged share market gave him more scope for speculation.

1908 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.

1962 M. B. Levin & G. Blackwood Compleat Politician i. ii. 114 Ward's opponents in the primary did not forget or forgive the ‘rigged convention’ and ‘rigged ballot’.

1973 V. Teresa & T. C. Renner My Life in Mafia xi. 122 I remember one night..we took his diamond cufflinks as well. We'd take him upstairs and knock him out of the box in a rigged dice game.

2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 23 Nov. 16/6 Mass protests against a rigged election.

1862 Times 24 June 13/4 They represented to parties going to see the goods that it was a ‘rigged’ sale, that the goods were not genuine.

1879 C. Dickens, Jr. Dict. London 12/3 It..is known..as a ‘rigged sale’, consisting of articles vamped up or originally manufactured for the purpose.

1954 Burlington Mag. July 229/1 In several countries, established dealers complain of the competition caused by ‘rigged’ sales.

2004 Jrnl. Econ. Lit. 42 541/2 The allegedly rigged sale of the Boston Red Sox to handpicked bidders.