gaff sail
Americannoun
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The crew of the Nautilus sent up a tremendous cheer as the great spar came down with its gaff sail, leaving the schooner for the time like a bird with a broken wing.
From The Black Bar by M.L.P.
She had a 20-foot mast stepped on one of the crossbeams connecting the hulls, with a single gaff sail.
From Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran by Howard I. (Howard Irving) Chapelle
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