Usually means: Specialist in lifting and moving.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word rigger:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. rigger: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rigger, rigger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rigger: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rigger: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rigger: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rigger, rigger: Wordnik
  7. rigger: Wiktionary
  8. rigger: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. rigger: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Rigger, rigger: Dictionary.com
  11. Rigger (entertainment), Rigger (industry), Rigger (modern usage), Rigger: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Rigger: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. rigger: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. rigger: Rhymezone
  15. Rigger: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. rigger: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. rigger: Free Dictionary
  18. rigger: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. -rigger, rigger: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. RIGGER, RIGGER, RIGGER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rigger (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. rigger: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Rigger: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rigger: Skydiving Glossary
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Rigger: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rigger)

noun:  One who rigs or dresses; as:
noun:  One whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship or of a counterweight system.
noun:  One whose occupation is to lift and move large and heavy objects (such as industrial machinery) with the help of cables, hoists, and other equipment.
noun:  (animation) One whose occupation is to outfit a computer model with controls for animation.
noun:  One who rigs or manipulates (an election, etc).
noun:  A part of a rowing boat's equipment used to provide leverage for a rowing blade or oar around a fixed fulcrum.
noun:  (in combination) A ship with a certain type of rigging.
noun:  A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
noun:  (New Zealand) A plastic bottle of beer, typically between 1 L to 2.5 L volume.
noun:  A long, slender, pointed sable paintbrush for making fine lines, etc.; said to be so called from its use for drawing the lines of the rigging of ships.
noun:  (BDSM) A person who applies functional or artistic rope bondage to another person's body.
noun:  (paraskiing) Ellipsis of outrigger. [(nautical) Any of various projecting beams or spars that provide support for a sailing ship's mast.]

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