square-riggedadj.
1. Nautical. Having the yards and sails placed across the masts in contrast to fore and aft; †having exceptionally long yards (Falconer).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [adjective] > having long yards
square-rigged1769
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [adjective] > rigged > in specific ways
lateen1540
high-riggeda1547
tall1548
well-rigged1577
under-sailed1599
over-rigged1627
schooner-rigged1769
sloop-rigged1769
ketch-rigged1775
spritsail1791
brig-rigged1796
square-rigged1802
ship-rigged1803
taunt-rigged1825
Bermudian-rigged1846
Bermudian1847
maphrodite1849
bark-rigged1858
butter-rigged1881
jackass rigged1883
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Xebec The crew of every xebec has..the labour of three square-rigged ships.
1802 Hull Dock Act 1503 Capable of containing seventy sail of ships or square-rigged vessels.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxiii. 229 A broad-shouldered, thick-headed boy..was making his first voyage in a square-rigged vessel.
1895 Oracle Encycl. I. 503/2 Brig, the general term for a vessel with two masts, having a boom-mainsail, and otherwise square-rigged.
2. transferred. (See quot. 1851.)
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1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 251/1 George and his two fellow-labourers were ‘square-rigged’—that is, well dressed.
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