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RIGG
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Lives Near the Ridge
Surname or Lastname
English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : topographic name from West Midland Middle English rugge, a variant of rigge ‘ridge’, or a habitational name from the village of Rudge in Shropshire, which is named with this word.English (West Midlands) : from a medieval personal name, a pet form of Roger.English (West Midlands) : nickname for a person with red hair or a ruddy complexion, from Old French r(o)uge ‘red’ (Latin rubeus).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Ridge 1.German : from a short form of any of several Germanic personal names based on rīc ‘power(ful)’.Possibly a variant of the Swiss family name Rüegg (see Ruegg).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : possibly a variant of Riggall, which occurs chiefly in Lincolnshire, but is unexplained.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived on or by a ridge, Middle English rigge, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, as for example Ridge in Hertfordshire. The surname is also fairly common in Ireland, in County Galway, having been taken to Connacht in the early 17th century. The name is sometimes Gaelicized as Mac Iomaire; iomaire is modern Irish for ‘ridge’.
Surname or Lastname
English, Scottish, and Irish
English, Scottish, and Irish : unexplained. Possibly a variant of Higgins through misdivision of a name such as Peter Higgins.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English riggewey, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by such a route or a habitational name from any of various places so named, for example in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Dorset, and Staffordshire.
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English
English : habitational name from either of two places in Devon, so called from Old English smæl ‘narrow’ + hrycg ‘ridge’, or a topographic name from Middle English smal ‘narrow’ + rugge, rigge ‘ridge’.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Son of Rigg
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Girl/Female
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Consecrated to God
Boy/Male
Arabic, Indian, Muslim
Light; Excellent; Of High Quality; Pure
Boy/Male
Australian, Indian
Sun
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Lord of Law
Biblical
or Achar, he that troubles, troubler,valley of trouble
Girl/Female
Australian, Greek, Japanese
Peace; Greek Goddess of Peace
Girl/Female
Indian, Tamil
Cleaver
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Kannada
Monkey
Girl/Female
Irish
blath means “flower, blossom.†In legend, Blaithnaid, the reluctant wife of Curai Mac Daire, loved Cuchulainn (read the legend), her husband’s rival. She revealed the secret entrance to her husband’s fortress to him by milking her cow and letting the milk run down the hill into a stream. Cuchulainn followed the stream, raided the fortress and rescued Blathnaid.
Girl/Female
Australian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Latin, Polish, Scandinavian, Swedish
A Berry; Sea of Bitterness; Sadness from the Sea
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imp. & p. p.
of Rig
n.
Originally, a small, sharp-built vessel, with two masts and fore-and-aft rig. Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner. About 1840, longer vessels with three masts, fore-and-aft rigged, came into use, and since that time vessels with four masts and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners, four-masted schooners, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
n.
A platform surrounding the head of the lower mast and projecting on all sudes. It serves to spead the topmast rigging, thus strengheningthe mast, and also furnishes a convenient standing place for the men aloft.
a.
Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails.
a.
Rigged for temporary service. See Jury, a.
n.
A rope carried taut between or over obstacles likely to engage or foul the running rigging in working a ship.
n.
One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship.
v. t.
To strip of rigging; as, to unrig a ship.
n.
The upper rigging, spars, etc., of a ship.
a.
Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.
a.
Rigged like a catboat.
a.
Like a rig or wanton.
n.
DRess; tackle; especially (Naut.), the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc. See Illustr. of Ship and Sails.
a.
Having two masts with fore-and-aft sails, but differing from a schooner in that the after mast is very small, and stepped as far aft as possible. See Illustration in Appendix.
n.
In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost sail on a mast. This sail is the one most frequently reefed or furled in working the ship. In a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter, Schooner, Sail, and Ship.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Rig
v. t.
To loose, and take off, as a bonnet from a sail, or to cast off, as any lacing in any part of the rigging of a vessel.
n.
A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
v. i.
See Wriggle.
n.
The European lance fish.