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Answer for the clue "Square-___ (sailing ship) ", 6 letters:
rigger

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Word definitions for rigger in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A rigger is a person who specializes in the lifting and moving of extremely large or heavy objects, often with the assistance of a crane or derrick .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rigger \Rig"ger\, n. One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship. A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery. [R.] (Painting) A long slender, and pointed sable brush for making fine lines, etc.; -- said to be so called from ...

Usage examples of rigger.

She would not be kept from it by Dap or by her fellow riggers or by what anyone thought of her father.

She saw Dap coming to see her at the rigger school, he the senior, she the novice.

Engine-mechanics, riggers, electricians, instrument fitters and radio mechanics swarmed all over the great four-motor aircraft.

One by one, the monks and holy men and riggers and carpenters and stonemasons and gompa abbots and mayors and bricklayers were asking soft questions of the young woman, and she was answering.

He knew a spot where crime was due - aboard the tramp steamer Zouave, captained by Jason Hilder, with Rigger Luxley, missing mobleader, on ship accompanied by a squad of killers.

TWENTY minutes later, Rigger Shoy and Jute Bantry were seated in a cozy booth in the corner of an exclusive cocktail lounge.

But there were certain persons who would believe Jute if he told them - Rigger Shoy, for one.

There seemed little doubt that the ork was a rigger, a vehicular technomancer.

He heard the light hammerblows of the outer airlock dogs disengaging: Woetjans was bringing her riggers inside.

Montemar Jukes, who Fletcher had brought aboard as a servant and promptly rated Rigger First Class.

There were sandhogs and riggers and welders and shipfitters and two circus acrobats.

So the drive riggers are Starbright employees, and the rest of the crew are Taler people.

The huge, sleek turbopump designed to bring return coolant from the heat exchanger to the number one engine had been partly dismantled by Francis and her riggers.

I would understand what the other blokes in the troop were talking about when they mentioned riggers, risers, brake lines, baselines, or flare.

Every once in a while Peleg came hobbling out of his whalebone den, roaring at the men down the hatchways, roaring up to the riggers at the mast-head, and then concluded by roaring back into his wigwam.