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mizzen::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | mizen, mizenmast, mizzenmast |
| Type of | mast |
mizzen::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | mizen |
| Type of | fore-and-aft sail |
Examples of mizzen
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So, will Audi be introducing a flying jib or a branded mizzen for their new A6 saloon?
From the guardian.co.uk
She was rigged as barquentine, with her funnel set well aft between the main and mizzen masts.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In larger galleons, a fourth mast was added, usually a lateen-rigged mizzen, called the bonaventure mizzen.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In the right-hand picture, the mizzen tabernacle is half-hidden by the belayed ropes and painted green.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Some sails, such as jibs and the mizzen sail on a ketch rig, are used more for steering than propulsion.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Back then the boat lasted 24 hours before the mizzen mast broke marking the end of McDonald's big adventure.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Later, when CSS Tennessee made her unsupported attack on the Federal fleet, Farragut climbed into the mizzen rigging.
From the en.wikipedia.org
May be used to attach the backstay or mizzen sheets.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The mizzen is about the same, I think.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Mizzenmast: third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy
- Fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast
- The mast of a sailing ship is a tall, vertical, or near vertical, spar, or arrangement of spars, which supports the sails. Large ships have several masts, with the size and configuration depending on the style of ship.
- The shorter mast aft on a yawl or ketch.
- The aftermost mast which supports all the after sails.
- (or mizen): the name for the third, aftermost, mast of a square-rigged sailing ship or of a three-masted schooner.
- Shrouds the ropes stretched from the ship's side to the head of the mizzenmast to offset lateral strain on the mast.
- A sail aft of the aft mast on a multi-masted boat.
- The smaller sail, supported by its own mast, aft of the main mast on a ketch or yawl.
