Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Rigged with three or more masts and square sails.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rigged as a three-masted vessel, with square sails on all three masts; also, square-rigged: as, a ship-rigged mast. See
ship , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Naut.) Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective nautical
Rigged like aship , withthree masts , each withsquare sails .
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Examples
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Most appear to have been three-masted and ship-rigged, like their larger cousins.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Most appear to have been three-masted and ship-rigged, like their larger cousins.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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A felibote (Spanish) or flibot (French) or “flyboat,” in one of its early meanings, was, as defined by R. M. Nance, “an enlarged, ship-rigged barge, contrived to carry as much merchandise as possible with the smallest possible crew.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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A felibote (Spanish) or flibot (French) or “flyboat,” in one of its early meanings, was, as defined by R. M. Nance, “an enlarged, ship-rigged barge, contrived to carry as much merchandise as possible with the smallest possible crew.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The larger vessel had not changed a scrap—a ship-rigged barque standing about fourteen feet from gunwales to water, which meant she had no cargo aboard—no poop and no forecastle, just a quarterdeck and a galley aft of the foremast.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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The larger vessel had not changed a scrap—a ship-rigged barque standing about fourteen feet from gunwales to water, which meant she had no cargo aboard—no poop and no forecastle, just a quarterdeck and a galley aft of the foremast.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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The vessels forming the flotilla consisted of praams, ship-rigged, and brigs carrying one or two eighteen or twenty-four pounders, and the largest a thirty-two pounder (with sixty or ninety men), all of them flat-bottomed.
A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman
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The stem raked a good deal for a ship-rigged vessel; the post raked slightly.
The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 Howard Irving Chapelle
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The old, inaccurate model, built to the scale of one-half inch to the foot, represents an auxiliary, side-wheel, ship-rigged steamer.
The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 Howard Irving Chapelle
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She was three hundred and eighty tons burden, ship-rigged, and was equipped with a horizontal engine, placed between decks, with boilers in the hold.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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