Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large room where rigging is fitted and prepared for use on shipboard.
- noun Theat., the space immediately under the roof and over the stage of a theater; the place from which the scenery is lowered or raised by means of ropes.
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Street Church, in the private residence of Mrs. Heck, and in a rigging-loft, sixty by eighteen feet, in William Street, which was rented in 1767.
History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams
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New York which they chalked out had not been accepted; the abandoning of their ship by the Englishmen was clearly enforced by the pressure of their own presence; and now they themselves had been forced to cancel from the claim the schooner's value as a necessary drag behind the steamer, by substituting a three hours 'splicing-job, worth five dollars in a rigging-loft, and possibly fifty if bargained for at sea.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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