schooner-rigged
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of schooner-rigged
First recorded in 1760–70
Example Sentences
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Without a deck, schooner-rigged, it took, says Trelawney, "two tons of iron ballast to bring her down to her bearings, and then she was very crank in a breeze, though not deficient in beam."
From Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Hutton, Edward
The sea-breeze freshened and brought up a schooner-rigged boat very fast.
From Great Pirate Stories by French, Joseph Lewis
“There is something that would suit us to a T,” remarked Berwick on their way back, indicating a trim looking schooner-rigged yacht.
From Frontier Boys in the South Seas by Roosevelt, Wyn
She was a finely-built ship of some seven hundred tons, and was schooner-rigged, so that she could either sail or steam.
From The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea by Pemberton, Max, Sir
Like most of the pirate sloops-of-war, Stede Bonnet's Revenge was schooner-rigged.
From The Black Buccaneer by Meader, Stephen W. (Stephen Warren)
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