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What is a square-rigger?

What is a square-rigger? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (nautical) A square-rigged ship.
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At the end of two hours they came upon a square-rigger with her decks just awash, and six men clinging to her rigging.
Aboard a square-rigger, keel-hauling was practiced from the main yardarm.
We'd boarded the five-masted square-rigger Royal Clipper about 12 hours earlier, but my first evening afloat was shrouded in a somewhat hazy glow.
In the story, Jack Aubrey rounds South America's Cape Horn to face the full fury of a massive storm on a 120-foot square-rigger.
Wicks was no hand with a square-rigger, and he had shown it.
I thought perhaps you were trying to ring in a square-rigger on me, and I'm not familiar with them.

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