"square" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Diamond was a three masted square rigger.
- The original course was designed to follow the route of the square riggers, which had carried cargo around the world during the 19th Century.
- After his return he wrote books about square riggers.
- Three poles rose from the garden's center, like the masts on a square rigger.
- A ship mainly so rigged is called a square rigger.
- The rig allows for good sailing into the wind (about 100 degrees) compared to a square rigger (about 130 degrees).
- Smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square rigger, a driver is tied to the same spars.
- "They used square riggers back in the past," Carol replied.
- The shipbuilding industry was also resurrected which, by the end of the century, had built 26 square riggers in total, one sloop and two ferries.
- The resultant performance has been remarkable, with the Pelican sailing, at speed, over 20 degrees nearer the wind than any square rigger.
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