schooner-rigged

[ skoo-ner-rigd ]

adjective

1. rigged as a schooner, especially with gaff sails and staysails only.

Word History and Origins

Origin of schooner-rigged¹

First recorded in 1760–70

Example Sentences

They were all schooner-rigged, and some were decked over so as to furnish a little cuddy for bad weather.

From Project Gutenberg

While I was wondering how I could get into communication with Cespedes, my interest was aroused by a newspaper story of the new blockade runner Let Her B. The Let Her B., whose name was a play on words, was a long, powerful, schooner-rigged steamship, built by Lairds on the Mersey.

From Project Gutenberg

She was schooner-rigged, with tall, tapering, raking masts that promised for her an ample spread of canvas.

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She was schooner-rigged, but she was much more lightly constructed than the Noank.

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Our ship was schooner-rigged and would carry about three tons.

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