schooner-rigged
Americanadjective
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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