Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the cat-rig.
  • Ridged; badly creased, as linen.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Rigged like a catboat.

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Examples

  • In cat-rigged mainsail only boats, sailing downwind is simply a matter of bearing away from the wind and easing the mainsail out.

    Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998

  • In cat-rigged mainsail only boats, sailing downwind is simply a matter of bearing away from the wind and easing the mainsail out.

    Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998

  • In one regatta in San Francisco we were sailing cat-rigged single sail boats.

    Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998

  • In one regatta in San Francisco we were sailing cat-rigged single sail boats.

    Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998

  • "There's a new boat on the pond," said Flint to himself, as a cat-rigged craft, white-hulled with a band of olive, shot out from behind a point of rock.

    Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin

  • In the cove before them lie at their moorings in the late afternoon a fleet of fifteen or twenty fishing and pleasure boats, all cat-rigged, all of one general build, wide, shoal, with one broad sail, all painted white, by the custom of the place, and all or nearly all kept neat and clean: they are all likely enough to be called upon now and then for sailing-parties.

    By The Sea 1887 Heman White Chaplin 1885

  • Here we found moored a cat-rigged sailboat, of which Walkirk took possession, and we stowed therein the valises, guns, and fishing tackle which we had brought with us.

    The House of Martha Frank Richard Stockton 1868

  • We found three cat-rigged boats at Titusville, which we had no difficulty in procuring.

    Down South or, Yacht Adventure in Florida Oliver Optic 1859

  • The boat was cat-rigged, and about twenty-four feet long.

    The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder Oliver Optic 1859

  • a large brig, with all sails set, loomed conspicuous to the view, and two or three fat little boats, cat-rigged, after the good old New York fashion, were beating down towards Staten Island, to hunt for the earliest bluefish.

    Fifth Avenue Arthur Bartlett Maurice 1909

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