unrigged
English
Adjective
unrigged (not comparable)
- (nautical) Not rigged; not having the rigging up.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- As she drew nigh, all eyes were fixed upon her broad beams, called shears, which, in some whaling-ships, cross the quarter-deck at the height of eight or nine feet; serving to carry the spare, unrigged, or disabled boats.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
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