SQUARE-RIGGED, adjective In seamens language, a vessel is square-rigged when her principal sails are extended by yards suspended by the middle, and not by stays, gaffs, booms and lateen yards. Thus a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.