square-rigger

noun

At the end of two hours they came upon a square-rigger with her decks just awash, and six men clinging to her rigging.

Probably he would be all right on a square-rigger, but he makes entirely too much fuss here.

There is not, as in the square-rigger, a balancing of weights and strains.

I thought perhaps you were trying to ring in a square-rigger on me, and I'm not familiar with them.

Hence a schooner is often called a "fore-and-after;" and a ship, a "square-rigger."

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