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
By 1934 he had scraped together enough money to be able to buy his own little full-rigged ship.
From Time Magazine Archive
President James Augustine Farrell of U. S. Steel Corp., six feet tall, towering and blocky as a full-rigged schooner, took a gavel in his great fist last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
A full-rigged ship and a schooner are two things.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sun shone brightly on the white canvas of a full-rigged ship, which was coming bows on towards them.
From The Ruined Cities of Zululand by Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley
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