Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Fitted with square sails as the principal sails.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Nautical, having the principal sails extended by yards slung to the masts by the middle, and not by gaffs, booms, or lateen yards. Thus, a ship, a bark, and a brig are square-rigged vessels. See cut under ship.
Wiktionary
- adj. nautical, of a ship Having (approximately) square sails rigged onto spars perpendicular to the keel.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Naut.) Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are
square-rigged vessels.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. rigged with square sails as the principal ones
Examples
“Quartered at the southern end of the Philadelphia waterfront, Willing operated a countinghouse, warehouse, a retail store, and below those, a wharf, berth to his several square-rigged frigates.”
“Exactly ten years ago - on this very day - I was living on a square-rigged sailing ship as it circumnavigated the globe.”
“Two square-rigged sails were mounted on separate masts set fore and aft.”
“The square-rigged cargo ships, with their central wells ready for loading, were brought inshore, to be easily beached when the time came, and only the small, fast dragon-boats remained within the enclosed harbourage.”
“Over the course of 33 days, these pirates will live aboard a massive 179 foot, square-rigged barque which carries 12,500 square feet of sail.”
“Yardarm is the fing that teh sail hang frum on wun ob dem old timey square-rigged sailin shipses.”
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“Besides writing, she competes in endurance riding with her horse, sails on square-rigged ships, and is trying to finish a study in International Communication.”
“When the wind went opposite the current, ships could move easily, at a turn of the River, the wind and current could go in the same direction, forcing ships to laboriously tack and jibe – very difficult in an 18th century square-rigged man-of-war.”
“The French text of 1628 that defined a patache as a “petit navire de guerre préposé à la surveillance des côtes” is quoted in Alain Rey et al. eds., Le Grand Robert (Paris, 2001) 5:333; Samuel Eliot Morison, Samuel de Champlain: Father of New France (New York, 1972) defines a patache erroneously by her rig, as a square-rigged ketch.”
“They are not to be confused with European barques or American “barks” of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which were defined by their rig: usually two square-rigged masts, and a third that was fore-and-aft rigged.”
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