ship-rigged
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of ship-rigged
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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Soon after daylight we made a ship-rigged steamer on our port bow, bound also for Singapore.
From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Semmes, Raphael
She had been ship-rigged, and from the appearance of the wreckage alongside had been caught unawares, very probably by the recent hurricane, and dismasted.
From The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise by Hodgson, Edward S.
She was ship-rigged, called the Mouche, and bound from the Isle of France to Bordeaux.
From Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor by Webb, Archibald
Commissioned captain on the 14th of June, 1777, in the same resolution which established an American flag, he was ordered to the Ranger, a little ship-rigged corvette of three hundred tons.
From South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure by Brady, Cyrus Townsend
She was about 350 tons and full ship-rigged, that is to say, she carried square sails on all three masts.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Bullen, Frank T.
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