full-rigged

In the 15th century, western Europeans developed the full-rigged ship, which was more capable than earlier vessels of dealing with the far greater distances and tougher conditions of the Atlantic.

When History Rides the Waves John Steele Gordon 2010

In fact, she was a full-rigged, three-topmast schooner, newly built.

Chris Farrington, Able Seaman 2010

A full-rigged ship was bearing down upon them a short mile away.

THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT" 2010

On each shell were painted precipitous and impossible seas through which full-rigged ships foamed with a lack of perspective only equalled by their sharp technical perfection.

SAMUEL 2010

When 150 pounds of solid, healthy womanhood struck the top of the canopy exactly in the middle, the metallic supports snapped like so many pipe-stems and the whole structure heeled over like a full-rigged ship in a squall, and spilled her on the floor, where she sat half stunned by the fall and afraid to move.

"The Moon Woman" by Minna Irving, part 3 Johnny Pez 2010

As a young man in the Navy he had once made ships himself, full-rigged ships inserted miraculously into whisky bottles.

In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010

When 150 pounds of solid, healthy womanhood struck the top of the canopy exactly in the middle, the metallic supports snapped like so many pipe-stems and the whole structure heeled over like a full-rigged ship in a squall, and spilled her on the floor, where she sat half stunned by the fall and afraid to move.

Archive 2010-04-01 Johnny Pez 2010

Just then, to the windward a full-rigged ship bears down on them, "the brightly coppered forefoot parting the water like a golden knife, the headsails flapping lazily ..."

“Some day, all the fools will be dead....” 2008

The "Sophie" Sutherland, a newly-built, three-masted, full-rigged schooner, out of San Francisco, is hunting seals along the Japanese coast north to the Bering Sea and Chris Farrington and a Swedish boat-puller named Emil Johansen, argue over protocol.

“Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.” 2008

Traditionally, sailors are entitled to the bragging rights of a gold earring in their left ear and a tattoo of a full-rigged ship.

Lea Lane: Up from Antarctica: Cape Horn, Chilean Fjords, Uruguayan Riviera, Patagonia -- and a Magical Eclipse (Part 4) 2008