Meaning

noun gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise

noun a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together

noun formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel

originFrom 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; to equip and fit; to make s.th. function”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *rik- (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *rign-, *reyg- (“to bind”); or related to Old English *wrīhan, wrīohan, wrēohan,…

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