English Dictionary

rig

/ɹɪɡ/

noun

(obsolete) A wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct. / A promiscuous woman. / (obsolete) A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic. / (obsolete) A blast of wind.

She was known for her rig and wild behavior.

意味（1）

(obsolete) A wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.

Let none condemn them [girls] for rigs, because thus hoiting with boys, seeing the simplicity of their age was a patent to privilege any innocent pastime, and few more years will make them blush themselves into better manners.

意味（2）

A promiscuous woman.

However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.

意味（3）

(obsolete) A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.

Away went Gilpin neck or nought, / Away went hat and wig, / He little dreamt when he ſet out / Of running ſuch a rig.

意味（4）

(obsolete) A blast of wind.

This ſanguine little king's-fiſher (not preſcient of the ſtorm, as by his inſtinct he ought to be) appearing at that uncertain ſeaſon, before the riggs of Old Michaelmas were yet well compoſed, and when the inclement ſtorms of winter were approaching, began to flicker over the ſeas and was buſy in building it's halcyon neſt as if the angry ocean had been ſoothed by the genial breath of May.