square rig
Example Sentences
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He’d stand by the square rig; and there were Newfoundlanders at his table to dispute the opinion.
From The Cruise of the Shining Light by Duncan, Norman
The Enterprise had been a Yankee schooner in the war with Tripoli but had been subsequently altered to a square rig and had received more guns and men to worry the enemy's privateers.
From The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 by Paine, Ralph Delahaye
All hands, Mr. Faulkner, and 'bout ship; that square rig and the heavy lift of those topsails tell what there must be below to sustain them.
From The Sea-Witch Or, the African Quadroon : a Story of the Slave Coast by Ballou, Maturin Murray
It's the right kind o' breeze for a schooner, and it's jest the wrong thing for a square rig.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by Stoddard, W. O.
