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standing rigging

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standing rigging [′stand·iŋ ′rig·iŋ]
(naval architecture)
Rigging that is permanently secured such as shrouds, stays, bob-stays, martingales, and mast pendants.


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As it extended, I brought out a line of goods suitable for kings, and a nobby thing for duchesses and that sort, with ruffles down the fore- hatch and the running-gear clewed up with a feather- stitch to leeward and then hauled aft with a back-stay and triced up with a half-turn in the standing rigging forward of the weather-gaskets.
 
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