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square-rigged
[ skwair-rigd ]
adjective
- having square sails as the principal sails.
square-rigged
adjective
- nautical rigged with square sails
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- square-rigger noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of square-rigged1
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Example Sentences
Their ships were usually square-rigged sailing vessels, which were commonly called galleons.
Jib: A triangular sail set on a stay in square-rigged ships, and then called a standing jib.
Yeo's squadron was mostly square-rigged, and was therefore equally serviceable in all kinds of weather.
You see, beyond the fact that she was a square-rigged ship we could say but little about her.
Captain Swarth looked at the square-rigged ship, now on the port quarter—an ill-defined blur to his imperfect vision.
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