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
Then came word that a freighter had discovered Crowhurst's yacht, ghosting along under its mizzen but still seaworthy, mysteriously abandoned in mid-Atlantic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, languidly raising his hairy legs and wagging them like flags, the old hand semaphored a request for jam to a pal in the port mizzen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Santa Maria's mainmast reaches 192 feet above the waterline, the mizzen to 158 feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
The main and mizzen top-sails were braced aback against the mast, and slowly the Constitution began to move stern foremost through the water.
From Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 by James Barnes
