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Spritsail

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A quadrilateral sail extended by a spar running diagonally to the sail's peak.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A form of three- or four-sided fore-and-aft sail and its rig, supporting the leech of the sail by means of a sprit.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A sail extended by a sprit.

n. A sail formerly hung under the bowsprit, from the spritsail yard.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Nautical:

n. A sail extended by a sprit, chiefly used in small boats. See sprit, 3.

n. A sail, no longer in use, attached to a yard slung across the bowsprit of large vessels.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit

Word Usage

"Except a small fillet of grass the natives wore not a particle of clothing, though there were several scarifications on their bodies; and what sailors call a spritsail-yard run through their nostrils which added to the ferocity of their appearance."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

fore-and-aft sail

Cross Reference

spritsailyard

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

spanker main-topsail tops'l centerboard foresail