Square Sterned

What would I not have given for a boat really fit for the work -- a steady, square-sterned craft, on the floor of which one might have stood firm, casting right and left, and able to take every advantage of those weeds which now made trailing a positive nuisance? ❋ William Senior (N/A)

She was a big, flat-bottomed and square-sterned, sloop-rigged, with a sprung mast, slack rigging, dilapidated sails and rotten running gear, clumsy to handle and uncertain in bringing about, and she smelled vilely of coal tar, with which strange stuff she had been smeared from stem to stern and from cabin roof to centerboard. ❋ Unknown (1905)

He glanced at it again furtively as he pulled away from the square-sterned American schooner which had ridden over the bar in the twilight of dawn and anchored, spectral and strange, in ❋ Perceval Gibbon (1902)

They were three in number, of well-seasoned, clear-grained, half-inch oak, smooth-built, double-ribbed fore and aft, square-sterned, and all practically the same, the former trip having shown the needlessness of taking any smaller or frailer boat for piloting purposes. ❋ Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1894)

She was of the standard type, clipper-bowed, square-sterned, with one funnel and two masts; and from the trucks of these masts stretched the three-wire grid of a wireless outfit. ❋ Morgan Robertson (1888)

Out in the middle of the river a few ships were moored: high - prowed, square-sterned vessels of a Dutch build trading in the ❋ Henry Seton Merriman (1882)

In one corner, bottom upward, lay a boat, very different in build from the flat-bottomed, square-sterned boats which were in use on the Russian rivers. ❋ Charles Morris (1877)

The other two boats were of that variety of open craft known as pirogue, a craft shaped like a flat-iron, square-sterned, flat-bottomed, roomy, of light draft, and usually provided with four oars and a square sail which could be used when the wind was aft, and which also served as a tent, or night shelter, on shore. ❋ Unknown (1805)