square-rigged in English

adjective
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(of a sailing ship) having the principal sails at right angles to the length of the ship, supported by horizontal yards attached to the mast or masts.
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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1. A Brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts

2. None of the four- and five-masted square rigged ships carried a moonsail.

3. Barkentines Square-Rigged Vessels Sail Diagram Ships, Barks, and Barkentines had 3 or 4 masts

4. Clewlines and Buntlines are lines used to handle the sails of a square rigged ship

5. The collection contains photographs of schooners, barks, Barkentines and other square-rigged vessels taken by Walter P

6. Brigantine definition is - a 2-masted sailing ship that is square-rigged except for a fore-and-aft mainsail.

7. Brigantine definition, a two-masted sailing vessel, square-rigged on the foremast and having a fore-and-aft mainsail with square upper sails

8. A Barkentine has three or more masts with all but the foremost mast fore-and-aft rigged. The fore mast is square-rigged

9. The buntline hitch was originally employed in securing the foot of a sail of square-rigged ships to Buntlines in the age of the sail

10. Barkentine, also spelled barquentine, sailing ship of three or more masts having fore-and-aft sails on all but the front mast (foremast), which is square rigged

11. Barkentine, also spelled Barquentine, sailing ship of three or more masts having fore-and-aft sails on all but the front mast (foremast), which is square rigged

12. A Barquentine (barkentine) is a vessel with at least three masts, all of them fore-and-aft rigged, except for the foremost one, which is square rigged.

13. brigantine (plural Brigantines) (nautical) a two - masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast, but fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail with a square-rig above it on the mainmast.

14. A Barquentine (alternatively barkentine) is a sailing vessel with three or more masts; with a square rigged foremast and fore-and-aft rigged main, mizzen and any other masts.

15. A Brace on a square-rigged ship is a rope (line) used to rotate a yard around the mast, to allow the ship to sail at different angles to the wind

16. Feore of Mobile started and built a shipping company comprised of 23 vessels, seven steel and iron hulled square rigged vessels as well as 16 other three masted lumber schooners and Barkentines

17. Historical ships, Barque, 19th Century Vintage engraving of Barque, a sailing ship, typically with three masts, in which the foremast and mainmast are square-rigged and the mizzenmast is rigged fore and aft

18. : a sailing ship of three or more masts with the foremast square-rigged and the others fore-and-aft rigged First Known Use of Barkentine 1693, in the meaning defined above History and Etymology for …

19. A Barquentine or schooner barque (alternatively “barkentine” or “schooner bark ”) is a sailing vessel with three or more masts; with a square rigged foremast and fore-and-aft rigged main, mizzen and any other masts

20. A Belaying pin is a solid metal or wooden device used on traditionally rigged sailing vessels to secure lines of running rigging.Largely replaced on most modern vessels by cleats, they are still used, particularly on square rigged ships.

21. Barque (plural Barques) A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged quotations ▼ (archaic) any small sailing vessel (poetic) a sailing vessel or boat of any kind quotations ▼

22. A Brig is a sailing ship with two square-rigged masts.During the Age of Sail, Brigs were seen as fast and maneuverable.They were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels.Even after the sailing age ended they were used as training ships

23. As nouns the difference between barque and Barquentine is that barque is a sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged while Barquentine is (nautical) a sailing vessel similar to a barque, but …