four-masted

How to use four-masted in a sentence

• Great quantities are taken in large four-masted ships to Liverpool, England, and there made into American flour.

  Stories of California | Ella M. Sexton

• I'd choose me a four-masted schooner, carrying freight and going somewhere, anywhere, no one knows where.

  Vignettes Of San Francisco | Almira Bailey

• Also, she was four-masted, instead of the usual three, and her hull and lower spars were of steel instead of wood.

  Cap'n Warren's Wards | Joseph C. Lincoln

• Used to be cap'n of a four-masted schooner, till he hurt his back and had to stay ashore.

  Galusha the Magnificent | Joseph C. Lincoln

• An old print of the "Finis Belli" shows a four-masted ship with a high poop and forecastle, but with a low freeboard amidships.

  Famous Sea Fights | John Richard Hale