Rigging (disambiguation)
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Rigging refers to:
- Masts and lines on ships and other sailing vessels, see rigging.
- Oars, Oarlocks, Outriggers, and other paraphernalia on a rowing boat, see rowing terms.
- Temporary structures such as stages built at rock concerts, gatherings, theatre productions, and other events where temporary structures are made from hollow structural steel for use in event production.
- Securing heavy machinery and other loads, especially for transport.
- Field Rigging - when crane operators, riggers and rigging superintendents design and execute the heavy transportation and heavy lifting on a construction project.
- Hanging of stage lighting, and related materials, e.g. rigging of theatrical productions which is done by a person known as a rigger a gaffer or a grip.
- Vote rigging is an electoral fraud.
- Rigging in contests is when the results are maliciously changed because of bias.
- The purported act (possibly an urban legend) between 2 homosexual males where a submissive partner swallows a rasher of bacon tied to a length of string which is not swallowed. The string is pulled to remove the bacon from the stomach at the moment of copulation. This causes the tightening of the sphincter.
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