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
To the small-boat sailor its puzzle of channels and fog is better than any cadaver by the mizzen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Santa Maria's mainmast reaches 192 feet above the waterline, the mizzen to 158 feet.
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
The schooner swells its sails for the far-off seas, The steamer pounds proudly far away, But I'd sooner be ascudding in a ten-knot breeze In my little lug and mizzen in the bay.
From Cornish Catches and Other Verses by Moore, Bernard
