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stunsel

stunsel is the alternative form 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

Forms of stunsel

pluralstunsels

Questions about stunsel

What is stunsel the alternative form of?
Stunsel is the alternative form of stunsail.

Words near stunsel in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stunsel (page history and authors); stunsail (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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