rig
/ɹɪɡ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
noun
An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
Example Sentences
- "The climbers each had a different rig for climbing that particular rockface."
- "We used a ground-level rig to safely learn how to tile a gable roof."
- "Every rig at the truckstop had custom-made mud-flaps."
- ""Big Joe's the name," an' I told him mine / He said: "The name of my rig is Phantom 309.""
- "There's armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps And rigs of every size. Yeah, them chicken coops was full o'bears And choppers filled the skies."
- "My sister and I always made our own rigs for Halloween."
Etymology
From Early Modern English rygge, probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian rigge (“to bind up; wrap around; rig; equip”), Swedish dialectal rigga (“to rig a horse”), Faroese rigga (“to rig; to equip and fit; to make s.th. function”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *rik- (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *rign-, *reyg- (“to bind”); or related to Old English *wrīhan, wrīohan, wrēohan, wrēon (“to bind; wrap up; cover”). See also wry (“to cover; clothe; dress; hide”).