Mobs in Boston prevented the exportation of grain by unrigging the ship and dismantling its rudder.
Related services to stevedoring are the activities of rigging and unrigging of ship's gear, unlashing and lashing of cargoes, and securing cargo on board.
They sailed to the Island of Blanco, which is a low Island 30 leagues from the main of Spanish America, where he unrigged his Sloop.
1.1dialect, archaic Undress (someone)
〈古，方〉脱去…的衣服
I was forced to beat a retreat before I was altogether unrigged
Example sentencesExamples
I was enforced to beat a retreat before I was altogether unrigged.
She tantalizes him by apologizing, ‘I must beg your pardon; I'm in haste to unrig,’ that is ‘undress.’
Definition of unrig in US English:
unrig
verbˌənˈrɪɡˌənˈriɡ
[with object]
Remove the rigging from (a ship).
解去（船）的索具
Example sentencesExamples
They sailed to the Island of Blanco, which is a low Island 30 leagues from the main of Spanish America, where he unrigged his Sloop.
Related services to stevedoring are the activities of rigging and unrigging of ship's gear, unlashing and lashing of cargoes, and securing cargo on board.
Mobs in Boston prevented the exportation of grain by unrigging the ship and dismantling its rudder.