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stunsail

UK/ˈstʌnsəl/

stunsail noun: studding sail.

Noun

stunsail (plural stunsails)

  1. studding sail
    • And, when running into more sufferable latitudes, the ship, with mild stun’sails spread, floated across the tranquil tropics […]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 41”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Forms of stunsail

pluralstunsails
alternative formstunsel
alternative formstunsil
alternative formstun'sl

Questions about stunsail

What does stunsail mean?
Stunsail means studding sail.
What part of speech is stunsail?
Stunsail is a noun.
How do you pronounce stunsail?
Stunsail is pronounced /ˈstʌnsəl/ (UK).
What is the plural of stunsail?
The plural of stunsail is stunsails.

Words near stunsail in the dictionary

  1. stunrod
  2. stunrods
  3. stuns
  4. stuns'l
  5. stuns'ls
  6. stunsail
  7. stunsails
  8. stunsel
  9. stunsels
  10. stunsil
  11. stunsils

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