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goosewing

goosewing is the alternative form of goose wing.

Meaning of goose wing

Noun

goose wing (plural goose wings)

  1. A position of sails in a fore-and-aft rigged sailboat, in which the mainsail is set to the leeward and the jib to the windward. This position may be used when running (almost) straight downwind. One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.
    Synonyms:
    gull wing, wing and wing

Forms of goosewing

pluralgoosewings

Words formed from goosewing

Questions about goosewing

What is goosewing the alternative form of?
Goosewing is the alternative form of goose wing.

Words near goosewing in the dictionary

  1. goosestepping
  2. goosesteps
  3. goosetongue
  4. goosetongues
  5. gooseweed
  6. goosewing
  7. goosewinged
  8. goosewings
  9. goosey
  10. Goosey Night
  11. gooseys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: goosewing (page history and authors); goose wing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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