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Schooner
Originally a small sharp built vessel with two masts and fore and aft rig Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner About 1840
lateen
Of or pertaining to a peculiar rig used in the Mediterranean and adjacent waters esp on the northern coast of Africa pertaining to a lateen
Knockabout
fifteen to twenty five feet in length having a mainsail and a jib a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit All knockabouts have ballast and either a keel or centerboard The original type was twenty
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Hayrack
on the running gear of a wagon and used in hauling hay straw sheaves etc called also hay rigging and hay rig
Sloop
A vessel having one mast and fore and aft rig consisting of a boom and gaff mainsail jibs staysail and gaff topsail The typical sloop has a fixed
Overrigged
Having too much rigging
Mistic
A kind of small sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean It is rigged partly like a xebec and partly like a felucca
Outboard
bulwarks or hull in a direction from the hull or from the keel opposed to inboard as outboard rigging swing the davits outboard
Attile, Attilamentum
Attile, Attilamentum, the rigging or furniture of a ship, Fleta, lib. 1, c. xxv., s. 9.
Raceabout
A small sloop rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail distinguished from a knockabout by having a short
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