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
Nailed to a tree in one headquarters was a big calendar with a picture of a full-rigged sailing ship.
From Time Magazine Archive
By 1934 he had scraped together enough money to be able to buy his own little full-rigged ship.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Two hundred years before, a great full-rigged ship, bound with a general cargo for the Guinea Coast, sailed down the Channel out of Portsmouth.
From The Truants by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
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