schooner-rigged

[ skoo-ner-rigd ]

adjective

1. rigged as a schooner, especially with gaff sails and staysails only.

Word History and Origins

Origin of schooner-rigged¹

First recorded in 1760–70

Example Sentences

The Lena Knobloch was a schooner-rigged 68 vessel with two masts.

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Schooner rigged boats appeared in the colony early in the eighteenth century, and gradually increased in size and importance.

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She was a schooner-rigged sloop-of-war, of eighty or ninety tons' burden, tall-masted and with a great sweep of mainsail.

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She also was schooner-rigged, a trifle larger than the Royal James, but without the latter's height of mast.

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She was a finely-built ship of some seven hundred tons, and was schooner-rigged, so that she could either sail or steam.

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