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Noun: rigger  ri-gu(r)
  1. Someone who rigs ships
    "The rigger carefully adjusted the sails and rigging of the tall ship"
     
  2. A long slender pointed sable brush used by artists
    "The artist used a rigger brush to paint fine details in the landscape";
    - rigger brush
     
  3. Someone who works on an oil rig
    "The oil rigger spent months at a time on the offshore platform";
    - oil rigger, roughneck [informal]
     
  4. A sailing vessel with a specified rig
    "a square rigger"

Sounds like: rift, rrigger, rigor

Derived forms: riggers

Type of: artificer, artisan, craftsperson, oil worker, sable, sable brush, sable's hair pencil, sailing ship, sailing vessel

Encyclopedia: Rigger