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
Santa Maria's mainmast reaches 192 feet above the waterline, the mizzen to 158 feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
We have been sailing at around 80 percent with just the No. 4 jib, a trysail and triple-reefed mizzen, but now we have also damaged the mizzen luff track.
From Time Magazine Archive
When first I saw her she was having a new mizzen fitted, her old mast having been lost in a gale outside the Wight.
From A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
