How To Use Square-rigged In A Sentence
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The foremasts carried square-rigged sails, while the mainmasts carried a fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail and square-rigged top sail.
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Harnessed up and clipped on - and on flat water - the task was a different story to how it would have been in the glory days of square-rigged pirate ships, exposed on a rolling sea.
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Quartered at the southern end of the Philadelphia waterfront, Willing operated a countinghouse, warehouse, a retail store, and below those, a wharf, berth to his several square-rigged frigates.
Robert Morris
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Their ships with triangular sails known as lateen rigs allowed for greater manoeuvrability than the square-rigged cogs and knars, but they lacked the strength to make them contenders on the open oceans.
With ships came viruses; What is the World Wide Web but a full-masted ship transporting the most vital goods of the age?
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Though square-rigged sailing ships have just about vanished from our oceans, they have left us present-day sailors with a racial memory of grandeur, power, and beauty.
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Star Clipper and her near-identical sister ship are fantastic square-rigged clippers.
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The square-rigged cargo ships, with their central wells ready for loading, were brought inshore, to be easily beached when the time came, and only the small, fast dragon-boats remained within the enclosed harbourage.
His Disposition
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Few, if any, of the divers aboard the JdL for our late-summer dive cruise had prior sailing experience, particularly on a square-rigged sailing ship like this brigantine.
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A nao was a Portuguese term nef or nau in French for a full-rigged round ship, with large square-rigged sails on two or three masts, sometimes with a lateen-rigged mizzen and a smaller mast called a bonaventure abaft the mizzen.
Champlain's Dream
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Square-rigged sails were particularly effective on the lighter ships known as caravels, which is why the Nina and Pinta were apt choices for Columbus's first voyage.
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She could outsail her square-rigged pursuers, and she did.
Sharpe's Siege
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Events such as Monday's parade of sail, where square-rigged barquentines and brigantines raise their sails and tour the harbour, evoke images of a time before steamships and attract thousands of binocular-toting sailing fans.
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She was a deep-waisted vessel, with three masts, the foremast and mainmast square-rigged, while the aftermast carried a long lateen-shaped sail called the mizen, with a square topsail and topgallantsail.
The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley
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His square-rigged ship with the cross and bones flying from the mizzenmast was a feared sight in the eyes of captains of merchant barques.
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It was a ship: a black ship, single-masted, square-rigged, with a dinghy behind.
Greenwitch
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a makeshift devised when proper caulking is impossible; cutwater, which is not only a bird but the bow of a ship, or a rope or cable in front of it, or a construction on the upstream side of a bridge; and halyard, the rope that hauls up a sail -- sails having been attached to yardarms when ships were square-rigged.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
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And from out of the night, over the roofs of Trewissick from the dark inland moors, came sailing again the phantom ship of Cornwall, single-masted, square-rigged, with a dinghy behind, that had sailed up out of the midnight sea in the haunting.
Greenwitch
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Star Clipper and her near-identical sister ship are fantastic square-rigged clippers.
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Quartered at the southern end of the Philadelphia waterfront, Willing operated a countinghouse, warehouse, a retail store, and below those, a wharf, berth to his several square-rigged frigates.
Robert Morris
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Yardarm is the fing that teh sail hang frum on wun ob dem old timey square-rigged sailin shipses.
Sloe death - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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No wonder old-time sailors deserted their square-rigged ships for such delights, after months at sea on hard-tack and briny water.
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The square-rigged cargo ships, with their central wells ready for loading, were brought inshore, to be easily beached when the time came, and only the small, fast dragon-boats remained within the enclosed harbourage.
His Disposition
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His square-rigged ship with the cross and bones flying from the mizzenmast was a feared sight in the eyes of captains of merchant barques.
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And so, although the light-winged craft that was following the ship sailed three feet to her two; yet she had such a long start, and the breeze was so fair and dead aft -- which was all in favour of a square-rigged vessel and against a fore-and-after, that sails best with the wind abeam -- that the felucca was still some five miles off when day broke and the chief mate first discovered her.
Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
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A nao was a Portuguese term nef or nau in French for a full-rigged round ship, with large square-rigged sails on two or three masts, sometimes with a lateen-rigged mizzen and a smaller mast called a bonaventure abaft the mizzen.
Champlain's Dream
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This meant they could both quickly catch up to and quickly flee from square-rigged vessels when sailing close to the wind.
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Grand Turk, the square-rigged fighting frigate best known as HMS Indefatigable in the TV series Hornblower, returns to Whitby this month before being featured in a film on the life of Napoleon.
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Besides writing, she competes in endurance riding with her horse, sails on square-rigged ships, and is trying to finish a study in International Communication.
Serenity Tales
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Two square-rigged sails were mounted on separate masts set fore and aft.
A Corridor in the Asylum
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He looked around at the picture of the square-rigged frigate, and then back at them.
BALANCE OF POWER
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Exactly ten years ago - on this very day - I was living on a square-rigged sailing ship as it circumnavigated the globe.
Archive 2008-03-01
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The square-rigged, steel hulled, vessel attracted huge interest from locals and visitors during her stay.
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A nao was a Portuguese term nef or nau in French for a full-rigged round ship, with large square-rigged sails on two or three masts, sometimes with a lateen-rigged mizzen and a smaller mast called a bonaventure abaft the mizzen.
Champlain's Dream
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It's fitting that the Hawaiian Chieftain sails San Francisco Bay regularly: A square-rigged topsail ketch, her rigging and hull shape are reminiscent of trading vessels that sailed along the West Coast in the 18th century.
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A few months ago I had the opportunity to sail among the Caribbean islands once again, this time on the square-rigged cruise ship Royal Clipper.
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It was square-rigged on its foremasts and mainmasts, but used a lateen sail on the mizzen to help in tacking.
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The square-rigged sailing ship Stavros S Niarchos was launched in 2000 to provide sail training for young people.
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Events such as Monday's parade of sail, where square-rigged barquentines and brigantines raise their sails and tour the harbour, evoke images of a time before steamships and attract thousands of binocular-toting sailing fans.
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Over the course of 33 days, these pirates will live aboard a massive 179 foot, square-rigged barque which carries 12,500 square feet of sail.
Archive 2007-04-15
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She is not more square-rigged than she is taunt; her foreyards do not measure more than 70 feet.
