mizzen
Example Sentences
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I now have to keep fencing with Accrux while I have managed to throw your sword flying and getting stuck into the mizzen mast.
From Economist ● Nov. 15, 2012
The top of the Bristol's mainmast was shot clean off, and her mizzen was splintered.
From Time Magazine Archive
Isabel and the Sea will make even a coal miner imagine himself "running free under number-two jib, staysail, mainsail, and mizzen . . . setting course for the volcanic island of Stromboli."
From Time Magazine Archive
Santa Maria's mainmast reaches 192 feet above the waterline, the mizzen to 158 feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
The spanker was set, with the mizzen and maintopmast staysail, and the helm put down to bring her round; but there was no racing of the cliffs to port.
From Denis Dent A Novel by Ernest W. Hornung
