User:KDS4444/tall ship

According to an author in Hogg's Weekly Instructor: "A tall ship meant a stout and sea-worthy ship; a tall man meant a man that was at once able bodied and true-hearted" (his argument being that the use of the term "tall" in someone else's writings describing America as a "very tall country" was in reference to her stoutness and trueness, not her height, which was a later development in the meaning of the word "tall")