rerig

English

Etymology

re- + rig

Verb

rerig (third-person singular simple present rerigs, present participle rerigging, simple past and past participle rerigged)

  1. (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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