Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, the rigging of the mainmast.
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Examples
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Several of the crew fled from the waist to the poop, and others of them sprang into the main-rigging.
CHAPTER XV 2010
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The shark, a sixteen-footer, was hoisted up against the main-rigging.
Chapter 21 2010
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Mugridge went down on the fore-hatch under three men; but he emerged from the mass like an eel, bleeding at the mouth, the offending shirt ripped into tatters, and sprang for the main-rigging.
Chapter 21 2010
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Several of the crew fled from the waist to the poop, and others of them sprang into the main-rigging.
Chapter 15 1917
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Mugridge went down on the fore - hatch under three men; but he emerged from the mass like an eel, bleeding at the mouth, the offending shirt ripped into tatters, and sprang for the main-rigging.
Chapter 21 1904
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The shark, a sixteen-footer, was hoisted up against the main-rigging.
Chapter 21 1904
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Dan chalked the figures on the board, and they hung it in the main-rigging to a chorus of mercis from the bark.
Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900
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The second lieutenant went up the main-rigging, and pointed with his hand to about two points before the beam.
Great Sea Stories Various 1897
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The captain, who stood upon the weather hammock-rails, holding by the main-rigging, ordered the helm a-midships, looked full at the sails, and then at the cable, which grew broad upon the weather-bow, and held the ship from nearing the shore.
Great Sea Stories Various 1897
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"Shall I cut?" shouted Earing from the main-rigging, whither he had leaped, like a tiger who had bounded on his prey.
Great Sea Stories Various 1897
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