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wing-and-wing

wing-and-wing adverb: sailing a square-rigged vessel before the wind with studding sails on both sides.

Adverb

wing-and-wing (not comparable)

  1. Sailing a square-rigged vessel before the wind with studding sails on both sides.
  2. Sailing a fore-and-aft-rigged vessel before the wind with the mainsail and a headsail on different sides (in goose wing position).

Questions about wing-and-wing

What does wing-and-wing mean?
Wing-and-wing means sailing a square-rigged vessel before the wind with studding sails on both sides.
What part of speech is wing-and-wing?
Wing-and-wing is an adverb.

Words near wing-and-wing in the dictionary

  1. wing walking
  2. wing wall
  3. wing walls
  4. wing warping
  5. wing'd
  6. wing-and-wing
  7. wing-back
  8. wing-backs
  9. wing-footed
  10. wing-handed
  11. wing-nut

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