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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The greatest living hero of the sea, 70-year-old Sir Francis Chichester sailed slowly back toward England under foresails and mizzen, his mainsail furled �out of the 54-ship transatlantic race that began June 17.

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

Then with a crash they met again, the English ship fouling hard and fast in the Wasp's mizzen rigging.

From Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 by Barnes, James