mizzen

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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 its critics, it seemed a perfectly preserved specimen of 19th century British culture, like a sailing ship in a sealed bottle�even to the Union Jack at the mizzen top.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the small-boat sailor its puzzle of channels and fog is better than any cadaver by the mizzen.

From Time Magazine Archive

The top of the Bristol's mainmast was shot clean off, and her mizzen was splintered.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was then on our quarter, and lashed himself to our mizzen chains; the contest then became desperate for one hour.

From Privateers and Privateering by Statham, E. P.