Definitions
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- adjective nautical, of a ship having its main
sails rigged ontospars orstays parallel to thekeel - adjective nautical, of a sail rigged in this manner
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Examples
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"It isn't Captain Brown's ship," said Eric now decisively, his sailor eye having distinguished while she was yet in the distance that the vessel was a fore-and-aft-rigged schooner, although Fritz could not then tell what sort of craft she was.
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In her wake plodded a tiny fore-and-aft-rigged steamer-yacht: the _Deerhound_, showing the flag of the Royal Mersey (British) Yacht Club.
Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure Charles Haven Ladd Johnston 1910
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A schooner is a fore-and-aft-rigged vessel with at least two masts and four sails -- mainsail, foresail, jib, and the staysail generally called a wind-bag.
All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways William Charles Henry Wood 1905
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The _Agra_ had already shown great sailing qualities: the log was hove at sundown and gave eleven knots; so that with a good breeze abaft few fore-and-aft-rigged pirates could overhaul her.
Great Sea Stories Various 1897
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You're as handy a lad as a man need wish to be shipmates with, aboard a fore-and-aft-rigged craft; but you ought to know some'at about square-rigged vessels too afore you sails foreign.
The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific Harry Collingwood 1886
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a fore-and-aft-rigged ship, usually with two masts, built for speed.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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a fore-and-aft-rigged ship, usually with two masts, built for speed.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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