Ridger

The phrase dates back to the era of sailing ships, when a ridger was a person. who handled the ropes used to hoist the sails, called ridger in Srilanka.

• Additionally, sailors may use their rope-handling abilities for lifting and hauling. prior to the invention of cranes, ropes, and pulleys for mechanical hauling.
• All that was available to move big objects was muscle power.
• Telecommunication ridgers are a specific subset of industrial ridgers.
• Ridging eventually grew into its own transformation, giving rise to contemporary usages that still use parts of the original vocabulary but have long since forgotten their origins.