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squaresail

squaresail 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 squaresail

pluralsquaresails

Origin of squaresail

From square + sail.

Questions about squaresail

What is squaresail the alternative form of?
Squaresail is the alternative form of square sail.

Words near squaresail in the dictionary

  1. squares away
  2. squares of opposition
  3. squares off
  4. squares the circle
  5. squares up
  6. squaresail
  7. squaresails
  8. squarest
  9. Squaresville
  10. squaretail
  11. squaretails

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Adapted from Wiktionary: squaresail (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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