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Definition of "sloop-rigged" []

  • Rigged like a sloop—that is, having one mast with jib and mainsail.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "sloop-rigged" in a sentence
  • "By saving money, by earning more, and by each of us foregoing a bicycle on his birthday, we had collected the purchase price of the Mist, a beamy twenty-eight-footer, sloop-rigged, with baby topsail and centerboard."
  • "She brought from her barbaric homeland a sloop-rigged yacht, which she captained without shame, dressed as a common sailor."
  • "You may move on to a larger sloop-rigged sailboat."
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