Word.ws English Dictionary

spritsail

spritsail noun: a form of three- or four-sided fore-and-aft sail and its rig, supporting the leech of the sail by means of a sprit.

spritsail: a form of three- or four-sided fore-and-aft sail and its rig, supporting the leech of the sail by...
Image: Tomasz Rojek, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

spritsail (plural spritsails)

  1. A form of three- or four-sided fore-and-aft sail and its rig, supporting the leech of the sail by means of a sprit.
    • 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...
    • Such a ship as the Rose of Devon frigate, standing out for the open sea, is a sight the world no longer affords. Those ships are “gone, gone, gone with lost Atlantis.” Their lofty poops, their little bonaventure masts, their lateen sails aft, their high forecastles and tall bowsprits with the...1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 6

spritsail meaning in Tamil

spritsail in Tamil

குறுக்குக் கோலினால் விரிவாக்கப்பட்ட பாய்

Forms of spritsail

pluralspritsails
alternative formsprit-sail

Origin of spritsail

From sprit + sail.

Questions about spritsail

What does spritsail mean?
Spritsail means a form of three- or four-sided fore-and-aft sail and its rig, supporting the leech of the sail by means of a sprit.
What is spritsail in Tamil?
Spritsail in Tamil is குறுக்குக் கோலினால் விரிவாக்கப்பட்ட பாய். See Spritsail meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is spritsail?
Spritsail is a noun.
What is the plural of spritsail?
The plural of spritsail is spritsails.

Words near spritsail in the dictionary

  1. spritesheets
  2. spritework
  3. spriting
  4. spritish
  5. sprits
  6. spritsail
  7. spritsails
  8. spritted
  9. sprittie
  10. spritties
  11. spritting

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: spritsail (page history and authors); spritsail (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “spritsail.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/spritsail. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.