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
James A. Farrell, onetime president of U. S. Steel Corp., has offered his Tusitala, a full-rigged ship, as a training 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
The full-rigged, deep-sea sailing-ship is gone, perhaps forever, and the man who mourns her most eloquently is Australia-born Alan Villiers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ninety-five year old full-rigged, four masted ship has been made into a floating maritime museum.
From Oahu Traveler's guide by Gleasner, Bill
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