Usually means: Ropes used for moving sails.
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  2. running rigging: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. running rigging: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. Running rigging, running rigging: Dictionary.com
  8. Running rigging: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. running-rigging: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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noun:  (nautical) The ropes used in bracing the yards, making and shortening sail, etc., such as braces, sheets, halyards, clew lines, and the like.

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