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

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

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

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 Barnes, James