Rig vs Finery - What's the difference?
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(slang, nautical) The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
* The climbers each had a different rig for climbing that particular rockface.
(US) A large truck such as a semi-tractor.
* Every rig at the truckstop had custom-made mud-flaps.
The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
(informal) A costume or an outfit.
* My sister and I always made our own rigs for Halloween.
(slang, computing) A computer case, often modified for looks.
* 2004 , Radford Castro, Let Me Play: Stories of Gaming and Emulation (page 104)
An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
(slang) Radio]] equipment, especially a [[CB radio, citizen's band transceiver.
To fit out with a harness or other equipment.
(nautical) To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
(informal) To dress or clothe in some costume.
To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.
To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
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, title= (obsolete) To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.
* 1616 , (George Chapman), The Hymn to (Hermes), in ''The Whole Works of (Homer) (tr.),
(obsolete) To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.
(obsolete) A wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.
(obsolete) A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.
* Cowper
(obsolete) A blast of wind.
* Burke
(obsolete) Fineness; beauty.
Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
(ironworking) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
* 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 160:
In obsolete terms the difference between rig and finery
is that rig is a blast of wind while finery is fineness; beauty.As nouns the difference between rig and finery
is that rig is the rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft while finery is fineness; beauty.As a verb rig
is to fit out with a harness or other equipment.rig
English
(wikipedia rig)Etymology 1
Probably of Scandinavian origin. Compare Norwegian .Noun
(en noun)- When I saw a special version of Quake running on Voodoo hardware, I knew I would be forking out quite a bit of money on my gaming rig .
Verb
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- Rigging and rifling all ways, and no noise / Made with thy soft feet, where it all destroys.
- (Tusser)
Etymology 2
See ridge.Etymology 3
Compare wriggle.Noun
(en noun)- (Fuller)
- He little dreamt when he set out / Of running such a rig .
- that uncertain season before the rigs of Michaelmas were yet well composed.
- (Wright)
Anagrams
* ----finery
English
Noun
- In front of the finery hearth in which the sow is melted down again, the finer is working with a long iron bar called a ringer (from French 'ringard') with which he keeps the molten iron in motion by stirring, an essential stage in the process of refining.