square-rigger

How to use square-rigger in a sentence

• At the end of two hours they came upon a square-rigger with her decks just awash, and six men clinging to her rigging.

  A Labrador Doctor | Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

• Probably he would be all right on a square-rigger, but he makes entirely too much fuss here.

  Through the South Seas with Jack London | Martin Johnson

• There is not, as in the square-rigger, a balancing of weights and strains.

  On Yachts and Yacht Handling | Thomas Fleming Day

• I thought perhaps you were trying to ring in a square-rigger on me, and I'm not familiar with them.

  Cappy Ricks Retires | Peter B. Kyne

• Hence a schooner is often called a "fore-and-after;" and a ship, a "square-rigger."

  Practical Boat-Sailing | Douglas Frazar