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ship-rigged

American  
[ship-rigd] / ˈʃɪpˌrɪgd /

adjective

Nautical.
  1. (of a sailing vessel) rigged as a ship; full-rigged.


ship-rigged British  

adjective

  1. rigged as a full-rigged ship

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of ship-rigged

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

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The stem raked a good deal for a ship-rigged vessel; the post raked slightly.

From The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 by Chapelle, Howard I. (Howard Irving)

A sound, teak-built, staunch, ship-rigged vessel of 1200 tons register, and classed A1 at Lloyd’s for an indefinite number of years.

From The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)

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 just the vessel they wanted; she was ship-rigged, carried twenty guns, and was quite new, having been only a few weeks out of port when she was captured.

From The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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.