staysail
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How to use staysail in a sentence
The 'Satanita,' however, had just before drove on to the outer flagboat and she was then kept lying with staysail to windward.
Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.I sprang to the helm and put it up, while Grampus hoisted the fore-staysail just a foot or so above the deck.
Hurricane Hurry | W.H.G. KingstonWhen the fore-topmast staysail and jib were to be set, somebody had fouled the down-hauls, so that they could not be hoisted.
Down the Rhine | Oliver OpticMr Forbes, get the starboard fore-topmast staysail sheets aft and well belayed, if you please.
The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" | Harry CollingwoodThe scavengers were sweeping down, and part of the after guard was bending a new bolt-rope on a storm staysail.
Richard Carvel, Complete | Winston Churchill
British Dictionary definitions for staysail
/ (ˈsteɪˌseɪl, ˈsteɪsəl) nautical /
an auxiliary sail, often triangular, set to catch the wind, as between the masts of a yawl (mizzen staysail), aft of a spinnaker (spinnaker staysail), etc
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