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ketch-rigged

American  
[kech-rigd] / ˈkɛtʃˌrɪgd /

adjective

  1. rigged in the manner of a ketch.


Etymology

Origin of ketch-rigged

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

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One morning this week a ketch-rigged three-master put to sea from a Brooklyn shipyard.

From Time Magazine Archive

"In eighteen hundred and ninety-two Grenfell sailed the ocean blue——" from Yarmouth to Labrador in a ninety-ton ketch-rigged schooner.

From Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Waldo, Fullerton

The Albert, a little ketch-rigged vessel of ninety-seven tons register, was selected.

From The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell by Wallace, Dillon

She was a thirty-footer, without a deck, ketch-rigged.

From Shelley by Waterlow, Sydney

She was ketch-rigged, with six sails—mainsail, foresail, two jibs, two topsails.

From Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Waldo, Fullerton