full-rigged
Americanadjective
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(of a sailing vessel) rigged as a ship; square-rigged on all of three or more masts.
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having all equipment.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of full-rigged
First recorded in 1820–30
Example Sentences
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Born in Norway, he had gone to sea at 15 as a deckhand on a full-rigged clipper ship that took six months to make its way from Europe around Cape Horn to San Francisco.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2016
Besides his favorite artists Crowninshield is ready to pay fond tribute to the late great Architect Stanford White, to the old Waldorf, to the full-rigged hostess of the 1900s, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish.
From Time Magazine Archive
James A. Farrell, onetime president of U. S. Steel Corp., has offered his Tusitala, a full-rigged ship, as a training ship.
From Time Magazine Archive
Crandall Addington, slim as a whip, whose year-round gamble is oil and gas exploration in South Texas, wears an elegant suit, a diamond stickpin, alligator boots, a neatly trimmed beard and a full-rigged Stetson.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Ryder, sir, and Phil, I never did wholly look to be a full-rigged cap'n, though I've striv and waited for the berth nigh on to forty year.
From Harper's Round Table, July 16, 1895 by Various
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