unrig
/ʌnˈrɪɡ
/verb (unrigs, unrigging, unrigged) [with object]
1Remove the rigging from (a ship): (as noun unrigging) the furling drum makes unrigging a snap...
- Related services to stevedoring are the activities of rigging and unrigging of ship's gear, unlashing and lashing of cargoes, and securing cargo on board.
- Mobs in Boston prevented the exportation of grain by unrigging the ship and dismantling its rudder.
- They sailed to the Island of Blanco, which is a low Island 30 leagues from the main of Spanish America, where he unrigged his Sloop.
1.1 archaic or dialect Undress (someone): I was forced to beat a retreat before I was altogether unrigged...
- She tantalizes him by apologizing, ‘I must beg your pardon; I'm in haste to unrig,’ that is ‘undress.’
- I was enforced to beat a retreat before I was altogether unrigged.
- bring something to the party
- bring something to the table
- bring something to the table (or party)
- bring something up
- bring something up to code
- bring the house down
- bring to naught
- bring up
- bring up the rear
- brinicle
- brinjal
- brink
- Brink, André
- Brinkley, David
- brinkmanship
- brinksmanship
- brinny
- briny
- brio
- brioche
- briquet
- briquette
- bris
- Brisbane
- Brisbane, Sir Thomas