square-rigged
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Having square sails set across the masts as the main sails
- adjective
- /ˈskwɛrˌrɪɡd/
- Specialized
:
de aparejo cuadrado
- Historically, square-rigged ships were the mainstay of naval fleets across the oceans.
- square-rigged ship
- square-rigged vessel
Examples
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She can also be handled by a smaller crew than the square-rigged ships require.
Fiction book (1992) -
Everything was square-rigged then.
Fiction book (1996) -
The photogenic "Star of India" is a square-rigged, iron-hulled, merchant tall ship and one of the three ships that form the maritime museum.
Academic text (2001) -
The square-rigged ship could catch the wind easily with its large sails.
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Many sailors prefer square-rigged vessels for their stability during long voyages.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
square-rigged positive
Morphology
Etymology
The word square-rigged comes from how the sails are shaped and set: square refers to the wide, nearly square sails that hang across the ship, and rig means 'to set up' the ropes and poles, like the ship's rigging. So a square-rigged ship is one whose main sails are those wide square sails.