schooner rig

noun

1. nautical a rig in which the mainmast is taller than the foremast

Example Sentences

“There lies the old Amatikulu,” said Gerard, as his ere caught the black hull and schooner rig of a steamer among these.

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And then he would fall to repining and wishing himself well out of the enterprise, and dilate on the peril of the seas, the particular dangers of the schooner rig, which he abhorred, the various ways in which we might go to the bottom, and the prodigious fleet of ships that have sailed out in the course of history, dwindled from the eyes of watchers, and returned no more.

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And a great chance 160 she would have rigged as a sloop and her one big sail, making a winter passage home eight or nine or ten hundred miles, when as it was, with the sail split up to schooner rig, men found it bad enough.

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She had been a cup defender and afterwards changed to a schooner rig.

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Even at the distance, it was plain that she was of schooner rig, and probably a fisherman.

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