spritsail
IPA: sprˈɪtsˈeɪɫ
noun
- (nautical) A form of three- or four-sided fore-and-aft sail and its rig, supporting the leech of the sail by means of a sprit.
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Examples of "spritsail" in Sentences
- They were usually spritsail rigged on two masts.
- The spritsail rig was normally used without a boom.
- The bowsprit formerly had one yard, called the spritsail yard.
- She spent some of her life ketch rigged and some of it spritsail rigged.
- The spritsail is a form of three or four sided, fore aft sail and its rig.
- One of the Italians took a turn with it over a cleat, while I hastened to lower our big spritsail.
- The spritsail flapped emptily and the boat righted to an even keel, causing the two men swiftly to change position.
- The spritsail filled with the wind, suddenly, careening the frail open craft till it seemed it would surely capsize.
- The exchange was made, and the salmon boat got up its spritsail and headed down the bay toward the marshes off San Rafael.
- Wherever the spray struck, it turned instantly to frost, and the dipping boom of the spritsail was quickly fringed with icicles.
- I came on deck to find the Ghost heading up close on the port tack and cutting in to windward of a familiar spritsail close-hauled on the same tack ahead of us.
- The cartilage of their nose is perforated, and a piece of reed, from eight to ten inches long, thrust through it, which seamen whimsically term their spritsail-yard.
- Except a small fillet of grass the natives wore not a particle of clothing, though there were several scarifications on their bodies; and what sailors call a spritsail-yard run through their nostrils which added to the ferocity of their appearance.
- As the spritsail was taken in and the boat headed on to the beach, he was aware of a distinct hurt at sight of Joan at the steering-oar, standing erect and swaying her strength to it as she resisted the pressures that tended to throw the craft broadside in the surf.
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