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What is a rigger?

What is a rigger? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship or of a counterweight system.
  2. A part of a rowing boat's equipment used to provide leverage for a rowing blade or oar around a fixed fulcrum.
  3. A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
  4. (New Zealand) A plastic bottle of beer, typically between 1 L to 2.5 L volume.
  5. A long, slender, pointed sable paintbrush for making fine lines, etc.; said to be so called from its use for drawing the lines of the rigging of ships.
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A rigger can knock a crane over as fast as a crane operator.
Joubert will be the bowman and rigger on the Swedish lock group Assa Abloy's boat.
A para rigger carefully arranges the suspension lines of a static line parachute as part of the packing process.
Kevin McGuire, a master rigger who has worked for Con Edison for 38 years, off ers a guide to what aspiring fl aggers need to know.
They also had Scott, a certified rigger, redesign their deployment procedure with a pull-out pilot chute system.
At the finish the shaven Tufte let out a small smile and gave the thumbs up while an exhausted Hacker slumped over his rigger.

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