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Square sail   /skwɛr seɪl/   Listen
Square sail

noun
1.
A four-sided sail set beneath a horizontal yard suspended at the middle from a mast.





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"Square sail" Quotes from Famous Books



... a regular sailor, as I said before, but I got out on the yard, and cut the square sail loose and let it drop on the deck, and I let the jib come down on a run, and managed to bundle it up some way on the bowsprit. This sort of thing took all the nautical gymnastics that I was master of, and entirely occupied my mind, so that I found myself whistling while I worked. I hoped ...
— The Rudder Grangers Abroad and Other Stories • Frank R. Stockton


Words linked to "Square sail" :   sheet, canvass, canvas, sail


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