mizzen
noun
a fore-and-aft sail set on a mizzenmast.
mizen
-
a variation of
mizzen.
Example Sentences
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Lowering the main-sail I tried the yawl first under mizen and jib; but the rolling in every trough of the waves was most uncomfortable, and besides she drifted north, which might end by going ashore.
From The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" by John MacGregor
Employed fishing the fore and mizen topsail yards, and fitting the rigging, and shifting powder from forward to aft, and cleared the decks up ready for action.
From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II by Sir John Ross
At 6 p.m. both the fore and mizen stay-sails were carried away in a furious squall; another life-boat and the cutter were washed clean overboard and lost.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper
There was a large frigate, that, with studding-sails set, stood boldly up the bay, followed by a dismasted three-decker, at whose mizen floated the ensign of England over the French "tri-color."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
“Marines! up the rigging, there, into the mizen and main tops!” shouted the captain, “and bring those men down.”
From Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches by George Manville Fenn
