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
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
Nailed to a tree in one headquarters was a big calendar with a picture of a full-rigged sailing 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
But her eyes were still fixed upon that full-rigged ship lumbering heavily to the unknown South.
From The Turnstile by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
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