square sail
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There was no sign of an anchor, a mast or the square sail typically used by Mediterranean trade ships of the time.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024
A crude steering oar swung astern; a big, archaic square sail drooped drunkenly from the mast, and the cabin aft was a bamboo hut thatched with banana leaves.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ship is about 65 ft. long, rigged for a single square sail.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then we set up a low-rigged square sail which steadied the Rofa.
From Time Magazine Archive
Downward from this yard he wove on the wind's loom a sail of spells, a square sail white as the snows on Gont peak above.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
