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Rigging

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1513, OED Evaluation: N/A

To prepare or make (an army or navy) ready for active service. Also intr.: (of an army or navy) to get ready

ExampleMeaning
My uncle dies last night you know and it makes me feel so sad, but he has left his big tin to me so I said unto Jane, now come with me and I'll rig myself up with things out of Petticoat Lane." This was a song that you used to sing.
Getting someone ready
ExampleMeaning
I can- I 'm able to put it up on two blocks, right off the floor. Burner and everything sits there and I says, and when I finally got it in and working. It only took me a day to- to rig up a (inc) for it and get it working and I said, "Now this basement can flood all the way to the rafters and it won 't reach the furnace, so go ahead, do your worst!"
Getting someone ready
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Well I'm rigging you up to this generation. Interviewer: Oh. I wonder what mine is all the way back through my family. I need to know more about my heritage.
Getting someone ready