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schooner rig

noun

  1. nautical a rig in which the mainmast is taller than the foremast
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“There lies the old Amatikulu,” said Gerard, as his ere caught the black hull and schooner rig of a steamer among these.

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And a great chance 160 she would have rigged as a sloop and her one big sail, making a winter passage home eight or nine or ten hundred miles, when as it was, with the sail split up to schooner rig, men found it bad enough.

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She had been a cup defender and afterwards changed to a schooner rig.

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Even at the distance, it was plain that she was of schooner rig, and probably a fisherman.

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The schooner rig makes the handiest all-round vessel known.

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