Definitions
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having two masts with fore-and-aft sails, but differing from a schooner in that the after mast is very small, and stepped as far aft as possible. See
Illustration in Appendix.
Examples
“As the launch neared the mouth of the river a yawl-rigged craft with an auxiliary engine had just entered it.”
“St. Heliers harbour was a new yawl-rigged craft owned by Jean Touzel.”
“Near by, some loitering sailors watched the yawl-rigged fishing craft from Holland, and the codfish-smelling cul-de-poule schooners of the great fishing company which exploited the far-off fields of Gaspe in Canada.”
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“He remembered the Sunday-school teachings of his native village and the discourses of the black-coated gentleman connected with the Mission to Fishermen and Seamen, whose yawl-rigged boat darting through rain-squalls amongst the coasters wind-bound in Falmouth Bay, was part of those precious pictures of his youthful days that lingered in his memory.”
“She was yawl-rigged, pulled six oars, and her full carrying capacity was twenty - four persons, for which number she carried provisions and water enough to last, according to a carefully regulated scale, four days, or even six days at a pinch.”
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
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