rerig
English
Verb
rerig (third-person singular simple present rerigs, present participle rerigging, simple past and past participle rerigged)
- (nautical, transitive) To rig again; to outfit (a ship) with new rigging.
- 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 227:
- The Edward A. Horton, the Gloucester schooner forced into Guysborough, Nova Scotia, and stripped of its sails, is part of Gloucester lore. Six New Englanders broke into a warehouse at night, took the impounded gear, rerigged the schooner, and slipped away on the flood tide.
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