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Webster 1828 Edition


Unrigged

UNRIG'GED

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Stripped of rigging.

Definition 2024


unrigged

unrigged

English

Adjective

unrigged (not comparable)

  1. (nautical) Not rigged; not having the rigging up.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
      As she drew nigh, all eyes were fixed upon her broad beams, called shears, which, in some whaling-ships, cross the quarter-deck at the height of eight or nine feet; serving to carry the spare, unrigged, or disabled boats.