schooner rig
Britishnoun
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“There lies the old Amatikulu,” said Gerard, as his ere caught the black hull and schooner rig of a steamer among these.
From The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley by Bertram Mitford
Even at the distance, it was plain that she was of schooner rig, and probably a fisherman.
From The Harbor of Doubt by George W. Gage
Next to the sloop, and very much like it, is the schooner rig yacht.
From Healthful Sports for Boys by Alfred Rochefort
Yes, there she certainly was, exactly as Evans had described—the black, long, and low-lying hull, the flush deck, the schooner rig, and the enormously tall, tapering, and raking spars!
From Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess by W. (William) Rainey
The schooner rig makes the handiest all-round vessel known.
From All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways by William Charles Henry Wood
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