LekhoriLekhoriThe 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.
A ridge.
A wanton person; one given to unbecoming conduct.
Let none condemn them [girls] for Rigs, becauſe thus hoiting vvith boys, ſeeing the ſimplicity of their age vvas a Patent to priviledge any innocent paſtime, and fevv mo[r]e years vvill make them bluſh themſelves into better manners.
A promiscuous woman.
An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.
The set of natural numbers N with the usual operations of addition and multiplication is a rig, but not a ring. The set of integers Z is a ring. For a rig/ring (R,0,+,1,−), the set of polynomials R[x] on a generator x with the usual operations of addition and multiplication is also a rig/ring.
Initialism of rapid intervention group.
From Early Modern English rygge, probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian rigge (“to bind up; wrap around; rig; equip”), Swedish dialectal rigga (“to rig a horse”), Faroese rigga (“to rig;...
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1616, George Chapman, The Hymn to Hermes, in The Whole Works of Homer (tr.), Rigging and rifling all ways, and no noise / Made with thy soft feet, where it all destroys.