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square-rigged
[ skwair-rigd ]
/ ˈskwɛərˈrɪgd /
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adjective Nautical.
having square sails as the principal sails.
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Origin of square-rigged
First recorded in 1760–70
OTHER WORDS FROM square-rigged
square-rigger, nounWords nearby square-rigged
square of opposition,
square one,
square one's shoulders,
square peg in a round hole,
square piano,
square-rigged,
square-rigger,
square rod,
square root,
square sail,
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How to use square-rigged in a sentence
Some longtime local acquaintances are struggling to square the man they know with the ugly associations.
This last trip it had felt as if there were more cameras around Havana than Times Square.
Records describe this house as 6,916 square feet, with six bedrooms and eight bathrooms.
The international media had been waiting on Wenceslas Square since early afternoon.
In the afternoon, about a thousand people marched in protest through the largest Prague square, with police nowhere in sight.
Nowhere can be found a region capable of supporting a larger population to the square mile than Lombardy.
For years his lordship was seldom seen in London, the great house in Grosvenor Square was never opened.
She opened the door of a square room with large roses on the white wall-paper, and fine old mahogany furniture.
I would not just then have traded off that steamboat for several square miles of snow-capped sublimity.
The building, which has five storeys, stands on three sides of a square courtyard, and faces into Edmund Street.
British Dictionary definitions for square-rigged
adjective
nautical rigged with square sails
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