Square-rigged Definition

Square-rigged Sentence Examples

• The Matthew is a modern recreation of the square rigged caravel that John Cabot sailed from Bristol to Newfoundland in 1497.

• Detail on the Bedford seal is hard to distinguish but both ships clearly had a square rigged mainmast and a lateen mizzen.

• The proper and dexterous handling of firearms seems to be fading from the screen - along with the management of a square-rigged sailing vessel.

• The harbor itself is a base for a fleet of square-rigged sailing boats often used, as is the harbor itself, for filming.

• The Red Sea galleys with their auxiliary square-rigged sails were probably the forerunners of the sailing ships.