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Marconi rig definition

☆ Marconi rig

a popular sailing rig with a tall, triangular mainsail set fore and aft

Etymology: so named because the structure resembles that used in wireless telegraphy, developed by Marchese Guglielmo Marconi

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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