square-rigged

1. 1.

   rigged with square sails as the principal ones

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Questions about square-rigged

What does square-rigged mean?

square-rigged means "rigged with square sails as the principal ones".

How many syllables are in square-rigged?

square-rigged has 4 syllables and divides as squa-re--rig-ged under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is square-rigged a common word?

square-rigged is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.