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Spritsail

noun
1.
A fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit.





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"Spritsail" Quotes from Famous Books



... that little craft, her big spinnaker filled by the southeast trade, was making a good race of it. Cape Martin, the southeasternmost point of Nuku-hiva, was abeam, and Comptroller Bay was opening up as we fled past its wide entrance, where Sail Rock, for all the world like the spritsail of a Columbia River salmon-boat, was making brave weather of it ...
— The Cruise of the Snark • Jack London
... 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. All hands were on deck, for they knew that something was to happen when Leach ...
— The Sea-Wolf • Jack London


Words linked to "Spritsail" :   sprit, fore-and-aft sail


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