riggings in English

noun
1
the system of ropes, cables, or chains employed to support a ship's masts ( standing rigging ) and to control or set the yards and sails ( running rigging ).
Most spectacular were the bone models of men-at-war ships whose rigging was made of human hair and sails of paper.
2
the ropes and wires supporting the structure of an airship, biplane, hang glider, or parachute.
The crew held on to the rigging lines of his parachute as he crawled along the wing towards the fire, making holes in the wing with his hands and feet.
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1. 4 Use the "buddy system. " Always have your partner double check all critical knots and riggings, such as tie-in knots, rappel knots and rappel anchors.

2. Bur the floggings at the gangway and the floggings through the fleet, the stealings, highway robberies, swearings, gamblings, Blasphemings, thimble-riggings, smugglings, and tipplings of a man-of-war, which throughout this narrative have been here and there sketched from the life, by no means comprise the whole catalogue of evil.

3. Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys, produced by Hal Willner, has gathered up the usual outrageous, inspired, ambitious, sometimes ridiculously grouped musicians to record folksongs of the sea, from the call-and-response grunting and occasionally obscene work songs sung by men from the old seas who worked the riggings in