gaff-rigged
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of gaff-rigged
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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Born rich and raised in the rich stretches of Newport's Ocean Drive, he sails his own 20-ft. gaff-rigged sloop.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the way down I had seen a number of gaff-rigged, Brazilian fishing boats called jamgangas.
From Time Magazine Archive
These handsome gaff-rigged lobsterboats worked the coast of Maine during the eighteen hundreds.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Manhattan the 72-ft. gaff-rigged ketch Saltillo arrived from Nassau, skippered by strapping Don Juan de Bourbon y Battenberg, Count of Barcelona and 44-year-old Pretender to the Spanish crown.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a sixty-foot gaff-rigged ketch with a wide beam—a real tub—but as I stood on deck it felt solid against the harbor chop.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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