Running rigging Sentence Examples

Maybe you are reading a great pirate book, like Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island, or you’re playing Sea of Thieves and are looking for some meanings. Perhaps you're in a play or dressing up like a pirate for Halloween or a costume party, and you want to learn some pirate terms and phrases so you can really get into character. Do you want to pick up some lingo for Talk Like A Pirate Day? Whatever the reason, learning some pirate terms can be useful and fun. Read on, me hearties!

If you’ve ever duct-taped a side mirror back onto a car or draped a blanket over some chairs for a makeshift tent, you’ve likely boasted about your jerry-rigging skills. But your talent for on-the-spot construction may have surpassed your vocabulary prowess, as the term is actually jury-rigged, not jerry-rigged. (Unless your name is Jerry and you’ve rigged it up; in which case, carry on.) Learn how you’ve gotten it wrong all these years — and whether or not jerry-rigged is a World War I-era insult.