square rig

The traditional course between and of square rig sailing ships of the 19th century, the clipper route travels south down the Atlantic and around the Cape of Good Hope for a clockwise turn around Antarctica’s Southern Ocean.

It's the right kind o' breeze for a schooner, and it's jest the wrong thing for a square rig.

He’d stand by the square rig; and there were Newfoundlanders at his table to dispute the opinion.

A brisk breeze holding steadily southeast gave the Barang the fullest advantage of her square rig and lessened the skipper's anxiety in some degree; and the Celebes coast stretched along to leeward like a roll of vapor in due course without any disquieting gleam of canvas having popped up over the stern-ward sea line.

The Enterprise had been a Yankee schooner in the war with Tripoli but had been subsequently altered to a square rig and had received more guns and men to worry the enemy's privateers.