rigger

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English

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈɹɪɡə(ɹ)/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈɹɪɡɚ/
  • Audio (UK):(file)
  • Homophones: rigor, rigour
  • Rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

rig +‎ -er

Noun

rigger (plural riggers)

  1. One who rigs or dresses; as:
    1. One whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship or of a counterweight system.
    2. 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.
      • 1998, Glen Ballou, Handbook for Sound Engineers: The New Audio Cyclopedia, page 1250:
        What if the rigger (the person who anchors the grids to the building ceiling) mishangs a single cable?
    3. (animation) One whose occupation is to outfit a computer model with controls for animation.
      • 2012, Verónica Orvalho, Pedro Bastos, Frederic Parke, Bruno Oliveira, Xenxo Alvarez, “A Facial Rigging Survey: State of the Art Report”, in EUROGRAPHICS:
        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.
  2. One who rigs or manipulates (an election, etc).
    • 1988, Australian Parliament, House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Representatives:
      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  […]
    • 2018, Cliff Edogun, The Rude Awakening: Nigerian Millennials Take Their Country by Storm., AuthorHouse (→ISBN)
      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.
  3. A part of a rowing boat's equipment used to provide leverage for a rowing blade or oar around a fixed fulcrum.
  4. A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
  5. (New Zealand) A plastic bottle of beer, typically between 1 L to 2.5 L volume.
  6. 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.
  7. (BDSM) A person who applies functional or artistic rope bondage to another person's body.
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Etymology 2

Abbreviation

Noun

rigger (plural riggers)

  1. (paraskiing) Ellipsis of outrigger.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

rigger m

  1. indefinite plural of rigg

Verb

rigger

  1. (deprecated template usage) present of rigge
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