Crossword-Solution: SKYSAIL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Skysail | n. | The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “SKYSAIL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Canvas on a full rigger. | 1 answer |
| High canvas. | 1 answer |
| square sail set above the royal on a square-rigger | 1 answer |
| Ship rigging | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SKYSAIL (5)
Toward morning, the wind having become light, we crossed our royal and skysail yards, and at daylight we were seen under a cloud of sail, having royal and skysails fore and aft.
All hands were then sent aloft, and for an hour or two we were hard at work, making the booms well fast; unreeving the studding-sail and royal and skysail gear; getting rolling-ropes on the yards; setting up the weather breast-backstays; and making other preparations for a storm.
The inside was then painted, from the skysail truck to the waterways--the yards black; mast-heads and tops, white; monkey-rail, black, white, and yellow; bulwarks, green; plank-shear, white; waterways, lead color, etc., etc.
The last touch was put to the vessel by painting the skysail poles; and I was sent up to the fore, with a bucket of white paint and a brush, and touched her off, from the truck to the eyes of the royal rigging.
Pike sent look-outs aloft to every skysail-yard, and the _Elsinore_ slipped along through the smooth sea.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1958–1971).