1797 Trans. Soc. Arts 15 282 Which rollers are turned from the outside by the riggers or ratchet-wheels.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 371 The knife is kept moving..by means of a band passing round the small rigger.

1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 357/2 Certain Improvements in Rigger Pulley Bands, for driving Machinery.

1872 Patents for Inventions: Abridgm. Specif. Raising, Lowering & Weighing 145 Wheels..capable of acting upon each other in the ordinary manner of toothed wheels or band riggers.

1894 Labour Commission Gloss. (at cited word) In the mill-sawing industry the band wheels revolving on the shafting are called riggers.

1973 Bull. Assoc. Preserv. Technol. 5 64 To the surface of the bench the saw is turned round with a great velocity by a strap passing round the rigger H and the wheel I.

1839 J. H. Ingraham Captain Kyd II. ii. i. 87 The Ger-Falcon, neighbour, was a square-rigger, I guess.

1890 Outing Sept. 481/1 The broad sail of a cat-rigger napped lazily as the boat rounded to at the landing.

1931 Hayward (Calif.) Rev. 30 Nov. 2/5 It is feared that the crew of the thirty-foot power sloop rigger, found drifting off Anacapa Island, may have been lost.

1997 Economist 17 May (Review section) 6/3 The first landing..appears to have been effected on February 7th 1821 by crew-members from a tiny schooner-rigger shallop, the Cecilia.

1881 Rowing, Steering & Coaching on Cam 19 Raise the handle of your oar slightly as you swing forward. This will take some pressure off your rigger, and will help the boat to right itself.

1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 297/2 Get the blade into the water as far behind the rigger as possible.

1925 Times 2 July 8/1 They fouled the Edinburgh University four, and broke the blade off bow's oar and bent his rigger.

1978 Daily Tel. 2 Nov. 35/3 Magdelen broke a rigger before the start and their race with Keble was delayed.

2009 P. Jenoff Almost Home xi. 178 Then, about twenty meters from the finish line, Andy broke the rigger that held his oar in place.

1883 M. E. James How to Decorate 12 A very long-haired sable brush (technically called a rigger)..derives its odd name from marine painters, who with such brushes delineate the cordage of ships.

1887 Art Jrnl. 341 Some prefer..to use the long-pointed sable brush, known to the dealers in artists' materials as a ‘rigger’.

1904 Mag. of Art 2 382/2 The first sketch on the plate itself is made with a large ‘rigger’ brush charged with white or red water- colour paint.

1968 C. Cornford Let. 1 Dec. in J. Creedy Social Context Art (1970) xi. 199 Little crosses drawn with a rigger brush.

1977 Art Educ. 30 iv. 27 (advt.) Series 731. White sable rigger. Short handles.

1999 Artists & Illustrators Sept. 64/4 I..create a humorous detailed picture about life 60 years ago. And using only one brush—a rigger.

1919 W. E. Chancellor Educ. Sociol. i. xvi. 200 A woman emigrated from the Rhine Valley to America in 1910..and became the wife of an American oil and gas well-rigger.]

1920 R. Hughes What's World coming To? ii. 91 One of Mrs. Durrins boys who'd been a rigger for otha wells decided to sink one on his mother's land.

1949 Amer. Speech 24 35 From this conflict emerged the titles..rigger..and swivel neck for rotary drillers.

1974 BP Shield Internat. Oct. 8/3 Highlands Fabricators created their own skilled local workforce..by training 610 former farm workers..as welders, riggers and fabricators.

1977 Offshore Engineer May 10/2 (advt.) Manpower—experienced Fitters, Riggers and Welders.

2000 P. Lev Amer. Films of 70s i. 18 He is escaping his family of distinguished classical musicians by working as a rigger in the Southern California oil fields.

c1840 Frauds of London Exposed 12 The rig is practised at fairs, at races [etc.]... The rigger offers to bet sovereigns, crowns, half-crowns, and so on.

1852 Arthur's Home Mag. Dec. 247/1 Even granting no slight-of-hand cheatery in the case, the Rigger evidently has two chances out of three.

1898 G. S. Clark Of Toronto Good 146 The rigger..places the ball apparently under one of the thimbles, in plain view of the spectators and offers to bet any sum that it isn't there.

1910 W. Seymour Ups & Downs Wandering Life 206 There was a thimble-rigger, who had placed his table with thimbles and pea... A pal of the rigger called ‘Police!’

1859 Athenæum 31 Dec. 888 The name of Solomons is suggestive of..auction-mart ‘riggers’, second-hand garments, and the slums of Aldgate.

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Oct. 5/1 A great cotton cornerer has gone the way of most of those great financial market ‘riggers’.

1950 Panama City (Florida) News-Herald 22 Dec. 1/1 (headline) Truman Frees Ballot Rigger.

1966 F. J. Cook Corrupted Land vi. 204 Koplin..had testified quite frankly about his activities as a rigger. He described in considerable detail the manner in which he had set up questions for Xavier Cugat, the popular orchestra leader.

2005 Times (Nexis) 1 June 2 The first challenge to the general election result was mounted yesterday in a constituency whose Labour MP has spoken out against postal vote riggers in his own party.

1911 N.Z. Truth 16 Dec. 5 This drew a crowd round, and he tried to humor her by first getting her home, and then getting a jar and two riggers of beer from the hotel.

1943 F. Sargeson in Penguin New Writing 17 66 I'd meet him every day, and I'd always bring a couple of riggers.

1991 North & South (Auckland) June 32 Little old ladies with woollen, sandshoes and string bags in which to carry their riggers of beer would gossip together... A rigger, or square gin bottle, would be filled with beer for a few pence.

2005 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 17 Sept. 9 Regional Wines in Wellington has two-litre riggers of Haymaker for sale at $10.80.