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spritsails

spritsails is the plural of spritsail.

Meaning of spritsail

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...

Questions about spritsails

What is spritsails the plural of?
Spritsails is the plural of spritsail.

Words near spritsails in the dictionary

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

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