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stunsails

stunsails is the plural of stunsail.

Meaning of stunsail

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

Questions about stunsails

What is stunsails the plural of?
Stunsails is the plural of stunsail.

Words near stunsails in the dictionary

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

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