schooner-rigged
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of schooner-rigged
First recorded in 1760–70
Example Sentences
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A large full-rigged ship requires a crew of thirty to thirty-six men; a schooner-rigged vessel needs from sixteen to twenty.
From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw) Redway
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
"No, sir; perhaps a description—" "A schooner-rigged steam yacht," I explained briefly, "clearing from New Orleans for Santiago."
From Gordon Craig Soldier of Fortune by Alonzo Kimball
Is full schooner-rigged, but carries a square-topsail on the fore-mast; the fore-sail not bent, but set as a square-sail.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
She was schooner-rigged, but she was much more lightly constructed than the Noank.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by W. O. Stoddard
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