Found 2 items, similar to rigger.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: rigger
rigger
n 1: someone who rigs ships
2: a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists [syn:
rigger brush
]
3: someone who works on an oil rig [syn:
oil rigger]
4: a sailing vessel with a specified rig;
“a square rigger”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Rigger
Rigger
\Rig"ger\, n.
1. One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit
the rigging of a ship.
[1913 Webster]
2. A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery. [R.]
[1913 Webster]
3. (Painting) A long slender, and pointed sable brush for
making fine lines, etc.; -- said to be so called from its
use by marine painters for drawing the lines of the
rigging.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]