rigg

From Middle English ryg, ryge (“storm”), from or related to Old Norse hregg (“storm and rain”).

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪɡ/

rigg (plural riggs)

1. A strong, stormy wind (now chiefly in the phrase "Michaelmas riggs").
   • 1892 [1603?], George Owen, The Description of Penbrokshire, page 74:

     ... vpon springe tydes, or after great riggs of the sea, at which tyme the sea will cast the same in more aboundance together into great heapes.

   • 1857 [1739?], William Laud, The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, D. D. ..., page 302:

     to take no better company with you than Michaelmas Riggs? If you do not make haste, I profess I cannot tell what to say to your journey. You may find more danger in a ship to Ireland, than over the Thames in a skuller.

   • 1802, Edmund Burke, The Works: Hints for a Memorial to be delivered to Monsieur de M. M. 1791. [and other political writings and letters]. 4, page 547:

     […] that uncertain season, before the riggs of Old Michaelmas were yet well composed, and when the inclement storms of winter were approaching, began to flicker over the seas, and was as busy in building it's halcyon nest as if the angry ocean had been soothed by the […]

   • 1845, John Bramston, The Autobiography of Sir John Bramston of Skreens, , in the Hundred of Chelmsford: Now First Printed from the Original Ms. in the Possession of His Lineal Descendant Thomas William Bramston, ESQ., One of The Knights of The Shire for South Essex, page 37:

     ... returne before the Michaelmas Rigg, as they call it, those seas beinge very daingerous about Michaelmas, neuer faile of stormes.

   • 1861, Mrs. Delany (Mary), The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany: With Interesting Reminiscences of King George the Third and Queen Charlotte, page 374:

     This will keep us till the middle of September, and as Michealmass "riggs" (or winds) have an ill name, we think it best to defer our journey to October, which generally gives us […]

   • 1995 December 21, Lady Eleanor Davies, Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 152:

     ... Michael the Arch Angells Feast, the aforesaid Blow, or last Blow, there about till when those hurtfull winds restrained, Michaelmas riggs so called. As aforeshewed forbidden to hurt the Wine and the Oyle: all speaking as it were […]

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• Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “RIG, RIGG”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC. "A strong blast of wind, esp. in comp. Michaelmas-riggs, storms prevailing about the time of the autumnal equinox"
• “rigg”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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rigg

1. singular imperative of riggen

From English rig.

rigg m (definite singular riggen, indefinite plural rigger, definite plural riggene)

1. (sailing) rig, rigging
2. a rig (drilling rig)

• borerigg
• oljerigg
• rigge (verb)

rigg

1. imperative of rigge

• “rigg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “rigg_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From English rig.

rigg m (definite singular riggen, indefinite plural riggar, definite plural riggane)

1. (sailing) rig, rigging
2. a rig (drilling rig)

• borerigg
• oljerigg
• rigge (verb)

• “rigg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

rigg c

1. rigging

   löpande rigg

   running rigging

   stående rigg

   standing rigging

2. a (more or less) temporary installation of a machine

• oljerigg
• testrigg

• rigga

• gods
• mast
• tågvirke

• rigg in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rigg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rigg in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)