ppl. a.

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  1.  Said of ships.

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1502–9.  [see RIGGED ppl. a.1 1].

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1590.  Spenser, F. Q., II. xi. 4. The Ferriman … With his well rigged boate.

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1612.  Drayton, Poly-olb., ix. 313. Madock … Put forth his well-rigg’d Fleet.

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1715.  Pope, Iliad, I. 405. Mean time Atrides launch’d with num’rous Oars A well-rigg’d Ship.

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  2.  Of a person: Well dressed or clothed.

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a. 1743.  Ozell, trans. Brantôme’s Sp. Rhodomontades (1744), 18. A well-rigg’d, spruce, proper Man.

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1838.  Haliburton, Clockm., Ser. II. ii. A tidy, well-rigged nigger help.

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