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gaff-rigged

/gaf-rigd/US // ˈgæfˌrɪgd //

桁架式的,桁架式,桁架式建筑,绞车式

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Nautical.

    • : having one or more gaff sails.

Examples

  • This sick status quo is a result of the rigged system of redistricting.

  • But New Yorkers have an important chance to reform their rigged system.

  • They hate attack ads and want change, but believe the American political system is rigged.

  • Semi-rigged elections, and blurred lines between business and government—Beijing's wrangling would make Boss Tweed proud.

  • In 1965, amid political tensions, regional elections were rigged by the ruling party in Western Nigeria.

  • Only I happened to have the radio set, and—and everything is rigged right for my idea to work out.

  • That was just rigged up to send us to Jack Carlson to ask that he get us out of town in a hurry.

  • Chet and Lance had 122 a pair of automobile searchlights rigged forward on their own boat.

  • The chain communicated with a powerful crane rigged up on the foremast, and was wrought by a steam windlass on deck.

  • It would be difficult in that weatherworn hull to recognise the trim full-rigged ship that left the Hoogly many months before.