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
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
Isabel and the Sea will make even a coal miner imagine himself "running free under number-two jib, staysail, mainsail, and mizzen . . . setting course for the volcanic island of Stromboli."
From Time Magazine Archive
See the private signal at the mizzen, the foam falling from the bows, and bubbling astern!
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
