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schooner-rigged

American  
[skoo-ner-rigd] / ˈsku nərˌrɪgd /

adjective

  1. rigged as a schooner, especially with gaff sails and staysails only.


Etymology

Origin of schooner-rigged

First recorded in 1760–70

Example Sentences

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Myself and my two brothers once owned a schooner-rigged smack of about seventy tons' burden, with which we were in the habit of fishing among the islands beyond Moskoe, nearly to Vurrgh.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various

She was schooner-rigged, with tall, tapering, raking masts that promised for her an ample spread of canvas.

From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by Stoddard, W. O.

“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

It had but one mast, and was schooner-rigged.

From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor

"The story of the schooner was true," he added, "except that it was a steam schooner-rigged yacht which was about to land some stuff for another dep�t at Burnham."

From Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England by Le Queux, William

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