Mizzen

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Nautical A fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast.
  • n. Nautical A mizzenmast.
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  • n. mizzenmast
  • n. A fore-and-aft sail set on a mizzenmast.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Hindmost; nearest the stern
  • n. The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Nautical, the aftermost fore-and-aft sail in a ship, set abaft the mizzenmast, and having its head extended by a gaff; a spanker. See spanker.
  • Noting the hindmost pair of horns in a five-horned giraffe, a small pair of projections arising from the lambdoid crest, back of the larger frontal horns.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy
  • n. fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    mast    fore-and-aft sail   
    Cross Reference
    to bagpipe the mizzen    mizzen clue-lines   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hindmost    mass   
     
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