ship-rigged
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of ship-rigged
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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She measured nearly eight hundred tons, was ship-rigged, and had been built many years.
From Peter the Whaler by Henry Austin
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 Howard I. (Howard Irving) Chapelle
The largest vessel was ship-rigged, and had a battery of eighteen 12-pounders; she was called the Inflexible, and was commanded by Lieutenant John Schanck.
From The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
The new Wasp, like her sister ships, carried twenty-two guns and a crew of one hundred and seventy men, and was ship-rigged.
From Hero Tales from American History by Theodore Roosevelt
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 Archibald Webb
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