One of these out-riggers should be fitted on each side, and all trouble of shifting over, and rigging out by purchase, will be avoided.
If they are carried, they are spread by out-riggers from the top.
He would not be happy if he was not on board from the very first hour that the riggers were beginning their work.
He has been at work here since the morning the riggers came on board, and is not afraid to put his hands into the tar-pot, as you can see from his appearance.
A body of riggers were at work in parcelling and serving with spun yarn the eyes of the shrouds.
To throw the breast backstays out of the cross-tree horns or out-riggers and bear them aft.
The riggers were busy setting up the standing rigging, reeving new halliards, and giving the old barky a general overhauling.
Casting an eye upward he could see riggers at work among the maze of ropes and spars, like so many spiders weaving their webs.
The riggers and painters had finished their work, the decks had been planed and holy-stoned until they were spotlessly white, and the tall spars and gear were all in their place.
Directly I have got them I can put a gang of riggers on board.
As soon as she is in the water again we will set a gang of riggers at work.
But, in the matter of spars and rigging, those heathens the dockyard riggers had completely ruined her, as O'Flaherty admitted, almost with tears in his eyes.
The French shipbuilders are better than ours, but their riggers not to be compared; which is the reason perhaps why they always shoot at our rigging instead of our hulls.
Riggers and Stevedores Local 38, at their annual election on Jan.
Soon the crew came on board in twos and threes; the riggers bestirred themselves; the mates were actively engaged; and several of the shore people were busy in bringing various last things on board.
Every once in a while Peleg came hobbling out of his whalebone den, roaring at the men down the hatchways, roaring up to the riggers at the mast-head, and then concluded by roaring back into his wigwam.
At which words Kolgrim started, in a way, and looked first at the riggers and then back at the Saxon, who moved no muscle of his face, though one might see that his eyes twinkled.
And I looked at the riggers also, and saw that the Saxon was right, and that the men had the square-cut sail turned over with the leech forward and the luff aft.
Riggers come back--you know what riggers are: come day, go day, and God send Sunday.
The riggers had all the cable ranged on deck to clean lockers.
We went on board the John, where we found the officers just topping off with the riggers and stevedores, having stowed all the provisions and water, and the mere trifle of cargo she carried.
The captain and mates and riggers smiled at my movements, and I overheard the former telling his mate that I was "old Miles over again.
Illustration] The riggers built trim little rope ladders from the rail to the crosstrees by lashing small "ratlines" to the heavy "shrouds.
Now," said Captain Hawes one day, "we'll go over to the wharf and see the riggers fitting up the new ship we saw launched.
They sighted several square-riggers lying becalmed and Thompson chuckled when he saw them swinging their yards to the flickering zephyrs.
Standing gear had to be screwed up again, running gear rove off through the right leads and a hundred and one small gadgets installed which riggers omit and sailors have to fit.
Now so impossible a thing was a canoe without out-riggers in the eyes of the Tahitians, that the prophecy was laughed to scorn.
Your own things will do well enough until we get the riggers out of the ship and the painting done.
As soon as he had come on board he had asked the first mate if there was any objection to his lending a hand if the riggers would allow him.
When the riggers had once left the ship Jack had nothing more to do, and Mr. Timmins told him that it would be no use his coming again until Monday morning.
A number of riggers were at work on board, and Captain Murchison was on the poop talking to an officer, whom Jack at once guessed to be the first mate.
The riggers were to put the finishing touch to their work that evening, and the carpenters to finish all below, and were to begin in the morning scraping and cleaning the decks, and there then remained only the painting to be done.
She seemed all right, as far as man may judge of a ship in port--nearly new, and well found in gear and canvas, which the riggers had rove off and bent.
These riggers are often called steam-pulleys by the workmen, from their being connected by bands with the steam-driven shaft of the factory.
Rotatory motions are given to the brush barrels Q Q, by bands passing from the riggers at G, over pulleys R R, fixed at the end of each of the axles of the brush barrels.
In the beginning of 1842, I fell in with six of these thimble-riggers and chain-droppers, on Newhaven road, on their way to Edinburgh.
I had the Ethel Ricks snaked out of the mud and hauled out on the marine railway, where I bossed a gang of riggers and sailmakers for a week, getting her gear in shape while she was having a gas engine and tanks for the distillate installed.
The mechanics and riggers have been working day and night on your new machine since we received it.
Her work was done, at any rate for the next few days, until she had been overhauled by the smart air-mechanics, fitters and riggers of the Royal Flying Corps.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "riggers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
