ppl. a. [f. prec., or UN-1 8.] a. Divested of rigging. b. Not furnished with rigging.
a. 1593. Marlowe, Edw. II., II. ii. While in the harbor ride thy ships vnrigd. Ibid., Dido, III. i. Yet … are my ships vnrigd, My Sailes all rent.
1623. in Foster, Eng. Factories Ind., II. (1908), 215. The carricke … nowe lyeth alltogeather unrigged.
1695. Lond. Gaz., No. 3088/3. The Ships that lay hard by unrigg’d.
1748. Anson’s Voy., III. iv. 330. Our shrowds were loose, and our top-masts unrigged.
1799. Hull Advertiser, 30 March, 1/4. She being totally unrigged, struck.
1830. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7), II. 633/2. An unrigged boat.
1834. Marryat, P. Simple, II. 281. Our guns became … hot from quick firing…. By this time we were almost … unrigged.
