rigging

With its tar-soaked rigging, creaking oak deck and 50 spruce oars, Draken Harald Harfagre is the largest modern replica of a Viking ship.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Except for when passengers, after taking turns at rigging, filed below deck to explore the ship’s white-oak skeleton, which flexed and creaked in the current—the ancient sounds of a seafaring world that’s all but lost.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Meta, meanwhile, is still going strong but has experienced its own earthquakes: from privacy scandals and election rigging accusations to teen mental health crises and toxic online harms.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

These workers control everything from individually steaming each stage curtain to rigging massive pieces of audio equipment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

The rigging was complicated, with countless lines and winches holding the billowing sails in place, and a large crew of men could be seen on deck.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

Instead, firefighters responded to the scene with ropes and riggings and rappelled down to the man’s location.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

And parts of the fly system, made up of wire rope lines and riggings, had rusted.

From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2021

After boarding their ships, the players unfurled sails, turned rudders, and climbed riggings to move between a series of tropical islands, climbing ashore to explore the new locations.

From The Verge ● Jun. 13, 2016

Back home, he fed his semi-abstracting campaign with motifs from summer sojourns in Gloucester, Massachusetts: signs, boat riggings, gas pumps.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 13, 2016

Bright arrays of nautical pennants dangled from their riggings.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown