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mizen

mizen is the alternative spelling of mizzen.

Meaning of mizzen

Noun

mizzen (plural mizzens)

  1. Mizzenmast.
  2. Mizzensail.
    • Finding it was like to overblow, we took in our Sprit-ſail, and ſtood by to hand the Fore-ſail; but making foul Weather, we look'd the Guns were all faſt, and handed the Miſſen.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Great Storm Described, the Long-Boat Sent to Fetch Water, the Author Goes with It to Discover the Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the...

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Forms of mizen

pluralmizens

Words formed from mizen

Phrases with mizen

Questions about mizen

What is mizen the alternative spelling of?
Mizen is the alternative spelling of mizzen.

Words near mizen in the dictionary

  1. Mize
  2. Mizell
  3. Mizelle
  4. Mizelles
  5. Mizells
  6. mizen
  7. mizen top
  8. mizen tops
  9. mizen-top
  10. mizen-top man
  11. mizen-top men

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mizen (page history and authors); mizzen (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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