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square-rigger

noun

  1. nautical a square-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


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The summer he turned 16, he was one of the Sea Scouts aboard the Pacific Queen, a 300-foot square-rigger, for what was supposed to be a 15-day cruise.

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It’s the largest tall ship flying the U.S. flag and is the only active square-rigger in government service.

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The Eagle is the only active square-rigger in U.S. government service.

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Bone went to sea as an apprentice in the City of Florence, an old-time square-rigger, at the age of fifteen; he has been at sea ever since.

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He sailed out before dawn at the helm of a two- hundred-ton Spanish square-rigger.

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