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running rigging

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English

Syllables
run-ning rig-ging
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The ropes used in bracing the yards, making and shortening sail, etc., such as braces, sheets, halyards, clew lines, and the like.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

running riggings (plural)

Rhymes With

digging rigging standing rigging frigging gigging jigging pigging swigging wigging rejigging

Questions

What does running rigging mean?
The ropes used in bracing the yards, making and shortening sail, etc., such as braces, sheets, halyards, clew lines, and the like.

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