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full-rigged

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full-rigged
adj
(Transport / Nautical Terms) (of a sailing vessel) having three or more masts rigged square


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When once the idea took hold Perry was most enthusiastic about it, and nothing would do but a four-masted, full-rigged ship.
Didn't the full-rigged ship, the whaler Essex, sink off the west coast of South America, twelve hundred miles from the nearest land for the small boats to cover, and all because of a big cow whale that butted her into kindling-wood?
Presently Gilbert said, with a change of tone, "Do I or do I not see a full-rigged ship sailing up our lane?
 
 
 
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