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stunsil

stunsil 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 stunsil

pluralstunsils

Questions about stunsil

What is stunsil the alternative form of?
Stunsil is the alternative form of stunsail.

Words near stunsil in the dictionary

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

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