rig

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To provide with a harness or equipment; fit out.
• transitive verb To equip (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
• transitive verb To fit (sails or shrouds, for example) to masts and yards.
• transitive verb Informal To dress, clothe, or adorn.
• transitive verb To make or construct in haste or in a makeshift manner.
• transitive verb To manipulate dishonestly for personal gain.
• noun Nautical The arrangement of masts, spars, and sails on a sailing vessel.
• noun Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
• noun A truck or tractor.
• noun A tractor-trailer.
• noun A vehicle with one or more horses harnessed to it.
• noun The special apparatus used for drilling oil wells and extracting the oil.
• noun Informal A costume or an outfit.
• noun Fishing tackle.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Nautical, the characteristic manner of fitting the masts and rigging to the hull of any vessel: thus, schooner-rig, ship-rig, etc., have reference to the masts and sails of those vessels, without regard to the hull.
• noun Costume; dress, especially of a gay or fanciful description.
• noun An equipage or turnout; a vehicle with a horse or horses, as for driving.
• noun Fishing-tackle collectively; an angler's cast. [Colloq.]
• noun A romp; a wanton; a strumpet.
• noun A frolic: a trick.
• noun An obsolete or dialectal form of ridge.
• noun Same as ridgel.
• noun The apparatus in a cultivator which carries the shovels; a cultivator gang.
• To fit (a ship) with the necessary tackle; fit, as the shrouds, stays, braces, etc., to their respective masts and yards.
• To dress; fit out or decorate with clothes or personal adornments: often with out or up.
• To fit out; furnish; equip; put in condition for use: often followed by out or up.
• To make or use a rig, as in angling: as, to rig light (that is, to use a light fishing-tackle).
• To romp; play the wanton.
• To make free with.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Naut.) The peculiar fitting in shape, number, and arrangement of sails and masts, by which different types of vessels are distinguished; See Illustration in Appendix.
• noun colloq. Dress; esp., odd or fanciful clothing.
• transitive verb Obs. or Prov. To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.
• transitive verb (Stock Exchange), [Cant] to raise or lower market prices, as by some fraud or trick.
• intransitive verb To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.
• noun Prov. or Scott. A ridge.
• transitive verb To furnish with apparatus or gear; to fit with tackling.
• transitive verb To dress; to equip; to clothe, especially in an odd or fanciful manner; -- commonly followed by out.
• transitive verb to adapt apparatus so as to get a purchase for moving a weight, as with a lever, tackle, capstan, etc.
• transitive verb (Naut.) to fit the shrouds, stays, braces, etc., to their respective masts and yards.
• noun obsolete A romp; a wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.
• noun A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.
• noun Prov. Eng. A blast of wind.
• noun to play a trick; to engage in a frolic; to do something strange and unbecoming.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun slang, nautical The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
• noun Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
• noun US A large truck such as a semi-tractor.
• noun The special apparatus used for drilling wells.