Definition of "square-rigged" [square•-rigged]

• Fitted with square sails as the principal sails. (adjective)

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• "Besides writing, she competes in endurance riding with her horse, sails on square-rigged ships, and is trying to finish a study in International Communication."
• "Quartered at the southern end of the Philadelphia waterfront, Willing operated a countinghouse, warehouse, a retail store, and below those, a wharf, berth to his several square-rigged frigates."
• "Exactly ten years ago - on this very day - I was living on a square-rigged sailing ship as it circumnavigated the globe."