(n.) A baited line attached to a float, for night fishing. See Leger, a.
(a.) See Ledger, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) So the party was seriously amaze, we had like these interns you could actually SIT on, tray Gatsby & the entire theme was "bags", non-swank my idea, everyone was going OMG it is like something out of Truman Patootie, then there is this shouting, the doormen are like, couple of liggers shall we eject, I'm like *sigh* let them in but make him do up his shirt & do not let her out of your sight?
(2) At times Tyson paints himself as a victim - of circumstance, of liggers, of women on the make - but in the end he says he has nobody to blame but himself.
Rigger
Definition:
(n.) One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship.
(n.) A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
Example Sentences:
(1) InsP3 as the rigger of Ca2+ release is continuously supplied while an elevated basal [Ca2+]i level due to Ca2+ influx provides a favourable condition for IICR and CICR as well as for recharging the Ca2+ pools ready to release Ca2+ again.
(2) Dominic Hook, Unite national officer "Innocent bank staff must not be allowed to carry the can for the rate riggers ...
(3) The demonstration riggered a “code grey” security alert – a major disturbance – and some sources said two Papua New Guinean nationals were injured when local police responded in a “heavy-handed” way, with “weapons drawn”.
(4) I and a few "riggers" were holding upright one of the four slabs of One Ton Prop (House of Cards) which leant against each other.
(5) Datta, H. Rigger, and E. Schleiermacher (in Chemical Mutagenesis in Mammals and Man, F. Vogel and G. Röhrborn, eds., pp.
(6) The final episode of Channel Five's Oil Riggers drew 600,000 viewers and a 3% share at 8pm, while Extraordinary People: The World's Strongest Toddler picked up 900,000 and 4% in the 9pm hour.
(7) The Times writes : "Sushi and sex revealed as RBS Libor-riggers’ currency" as it romps through some of the exchanges between traders ( see here ).
(8) Embarrassing Bodies was up against BBC2 reality show The Speaker, which had 1.2 million viewers, a 5% share, and Five's Oil Riggers, watched by 1 million viewers.
(9) That is something that the Libor riggers and forex manipulators cannot joke about.