schooner-rigged
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of schooner-rigged
First recorded in 1760–70
Example Sentences
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The square-rigged ship, or bark, has been very largely replaced by the fore-and-aft, or schooner-rigged vessel.
From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw) Redway
Her foremast carried square sails; her main and mizzen masts were schooner-rigged.
From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Jewett Castello Gilson
We now had nearly two hundred prisoners on board, and thought it prudent to retrace our steps to Port Royal, when on the following morning we fell in with two more schooner-rigged privateers.
From A Sailor of King George by A. Beckford Bevan
It had but one mast, and was schooner-rigged.
From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
In a few minutes the world was in a blaze of light, and conspicuous on the troubled but brilliant sea was the long, low, black hull of a schooner-rigged vessel.
From Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island by Julia de Winton
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