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square-sail

square-sail is the alternative form of square sail.

Meaning of square sail

Noun

square sail (plural square sails)

  1. A sail bent to a horizontal yard set athwartships.

Forms of square-sail

pluralsquare-sails

Questions about square-sail

What is square-sail the alternative form of?
Square-sail is the alternative form of square sail.

Words near square-sail in the dictionary

  1. square-pierced
  2. square-pushing
  3. square-rigged
  4. square-rigger
  5. square-riggers
  6. square-sail
  7. square-shooter
  8. square-shooters
  9. square-toed
  10. square-up
  11. square-ups

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Adapted from Wiktionary: square-sail (page history and authors); square sail (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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