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square-rigged, a.
[square a. 13.]
1. Naut. Having the yards and sails placed across the masts in contrast to fore and aft; † having exceptionally long yards (Falconer).
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780) s.v. Xebec, The crew of every xebec has..the labour of three square-rigged ships. 1802Hull Dock Act 1503 Capable of containing seventy sail of ships or square-rigged vessels. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxiii, [He] was making his first voyage in a square-rigged vessel. 1895Oracle Encycl. I. 503/2 Brig, the general term for a vessel with two masts, having a boom-mainsail, and otherwise square-rigged.
2. transf. (See quot.)
1851Mayhew Lond. Lab. I. 251/1 George and his two fellow-labourers were ‘square-rigged’—that is, well dressed. |