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Studding sail   Listen
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Studding sail  n.  (Naut.) A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom.





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... casting off ropes and getting the booms prepared; until, anon, the captains of the fore and maintops and the captain of the forecastle, as well as the gunner's mate, whose task it was to see to the main topmast studding sail, reported "All ready!" ...
— Crown and Anchor - Under the Pen'ant • John Conroy Hutcheson


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