Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Fitted with square sails as the principal sails.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nautical, having the principal sails extended by yards slung to the masts by the middle, and not by gaffs, booms, or lateen yards. Thus, a ship, a bark, and a brig are square-rigged vessels. See cut under
ship .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Naut.) Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are
square-rigged vessels.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective nautical, of a ship Having (approximately)
square sails rigged ontospars perpendicular to thekeel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective rigged with square sails as the principal ones
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Examples
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Exactly ten years ago - on this very day - I was living on a square-rigged sailing ship as it circumnavigated the globe.
Archive 2008-03-01 jen 2008
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Exactly ten years ago - on this very day - I was living on a square-rigged sailing ship as it circumnavigated the globe.
10 years ago today... jen 2008
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Quartered at the southern end of the Philadelphia waterfront, Willing operated a countinghouse, warehouse, a retail store, and below those, a wharf, berth to his several square-rigged frigates.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Besides writing, she competes in endurance riding with her horse, sails on square-rigged ships, and is trying to finish a study in International Communication.
Serenity Tales 2008
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Two square-rigged sails were mounted on separate masts set fore and aft.
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Quartered at the southern end of the Philadelphia waterfront, Willing operated a countinghouse, warehouse, a retail store, and below those, a wharf, berth to his several square-rigged frigates.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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The square-rigged cargo ships, with their central wells ready for loading, were brought inshore, to be easily beached when the time came, and only the small, fast dragon-boats remained within the enclosed harbourage.
His Disposition 2010
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Over the course of 33 days, these pirates will live aboard a massive 179 foot, square-rigged barque which carries 12,500 square feet of sail.
Archive 2007-04-15 Bill Crider 2007
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Yardarm is the fing that teh sail hang frum on wun ob dem old timey square-rigged sailin shipses.
Sloe death - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Besides writing, she competes in endurance riding with her horse, sails on square-rigged ships, and is trying to finish a study in International Communication.
Serenity Tale No. 7: 'Notes on a Fridge [on a spaceship]' 2006
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