rigger

One who rigs or dresses; as:; One whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship or of a counterweight system.

• So far there was not a hitch. The workpeople, to be sure — riggers and what not — were most annoyingly slow; but time cured that. It was the crew that troubled me.

One who rigs or dresses; as:; One whose occupation is to lift and move large and heavy objects (such as industrial machinery) with the help of cables, hoists, and other equipment.

• What if the rigger (the person who anchors the grids to the building ceiling) mishangs a single cable?

One who rigs or dresses; as:; One whose occupation is to outfit a computer model with controls for animation.

• It is common that after the rig is created an animator asks the rigger to create new controls, because the character needs to support new poses or simply needs to look better.

A worker on an oil rig.

One who rigs or manipulates (an election, etc).

• The real riggers of electoral boundaries in New South Wales were those who got loose after 1965. When the boys from George Street and Ash Street got loose there was a majority in the Parliament. That is when there was a redistribution […]
• An election rigger who assumes illegitimate political power would be primarily motivated to spread their corrosive toxins across the political system, thus rendering institutions of government dysfunctional and convoluted.

A part of a rowing boat's equipment used to provide leverage for a rowing blade or oar around a fixed fulcrum.

A ship with a certain type of rigging.in-compounds

A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.

A plastic bottle of beer, typically between 1 L to 2.5 L volume.New-Zealand

A long, slender, pointed sable paintbrush for making fine lines, etc.; said to be so called from its use for drawing the lines of the rigging of ships.

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