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Rigger vs Bigger - What's the difference?

rigger | bigger |

As a noun rigger

is one who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship or of a counterweight system.

As an adjective bigger is

(big).

As a verb bigger is

(nonstandard|rare) to make or become bigger.

rigger

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship or of a counterweight system.
  • A part of a rowing boat's equipment used to provide leverage for a rowing blade or oar around a fixed fulcrum.
  • A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
  • (NZ) A plastic bottle of beer, typically between 1 L to 2.5 L volume.

    • bigger

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (big)
  • * 1812 , A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts (Walter Scott, John Somers), page 146:
    • That whereas, and whereby, and by which, the major, and most greater, and most bigger , and most stronger party,
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (nonstandard, rare) To make or become bigger.
  • * {{quote-book, 1871, Julian Leep, A Ready-Made Family, volume=1, page=322, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=mny99S_fR4AC&pg=PA322, edition=2009 ed.
    • , passage=She's in along with mother, talking about the college; it's to be biggered , sir. }}
  • * {{quote-book, 1971, citation
    • , passage=But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got.
    I biggered my factory. I biggered my roads.}}
  • * {{quote-news, 2002, August 5, Mark Gibbs, IBM and PwC: Rhyme and Reasons, Network World, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=4hgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT69, page=69
    • , passage=The money they splurged to the board's delight
    Will be spent biggering IT services, clean out of sight}}

    See also

    * biggers