ship-rigged
(of a sailing vessel) rigged as a ship; full-rigged.
Origin of ship-rigged
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How to use ship-rigged in a sentence
The new Wasp, like her sister ships, carried twenty-two guns and a crew of one hundred and seventy men, and was ship-rigged.
Hero Tales From American History | Henry Cabot Lodge, and Theodore RooseveltShe was about three hundred and fifty tons and full ship-rigged—that is to say, she carried square sails on all three masts.
The term “sloop” is now usually applied to a man-of-war, ship-rigged, and carrying less than 18 guns.
They were small craft, of the "Pinnace" type, ship-rigged, with spritsail-topmasts.
British Flags | W. G. PerrinShe measured nearly eight hundred tons, was ship-rigged, and had been built many years.
Peter the Whaler | W.H.G. Kingston
British Dictionary definitions for ship-rigged
rigged as a full-rigged ship
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