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mizzens

mizzens is the plural 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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Questions about mizzens

What is mizzens the plural of?
Mizzens is the plural of mizzen.

Words near mizzens in the dictionary

  1. mizzen-top man
  2. mizzen-top men
  3. mizzen-tops
  4. mizzenmast
  5. mizzenmasts
  6. mizzens
  7. mizzensail
  8. mizzensails
  9. mizzentop
  10. mizzentopman
  11. mizzentopmast

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mizzens (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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