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Studding sail   Listen
noun
Studding sail  n.  (Naut.) A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom.






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"Studding sail" Quotes from Famous Books



... confusion, "I'm not at all wet, I'm not." Happily, the children don't know what fear is. The maids, however, were very frightened, as some of the sea had got down into the nursery, and the skylights had to be screwed down. Our studding sail boom, too, broke with a loud crack when the ship broached to, and the jaws of ...
— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams



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