Crossword-Solution: SPRITSAIL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spritsail | n. | A sail extended by a sprit. |
| Spritsail | n. | A sail formerly hung under the bowsprit, from the spritsail yard. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “SPRITSAIL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| SAIL extended by spar | 1 answer |
| sail extended by a sprit | 1 answer |
| Sail | 59 answers |
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Sentences with SPRITSAIL (5)
The best quartermaster was sent to the wheel, with orders to keep the chase directly over the weather end of the spritsail yard.
The mizen topsail, which was a comparatively new sail, and close-reefed, split, from head to foot, in the bunt; the fore-topsail went, in one rent, from clew to earing, and was blowing to tatters; one of the chain bobstays parted; the spritsail-yard sprung in the slings; the martingale had slued away off to leeward; and, owing to the long dry weather, the lee rigging hung in large bights, at every lurch.
All hands were now employed in setting up the lee rigging, fishing the spritsail-yard, lashing the galley, and getting tackles upon the martingale, to bowse it to windward.
The head stays and guys, and the spritsail-yard, were lined, and, having still more, we got out the swinging booms, and strung them and the forward and after guys, with hides.
For more than an hour she was driven on at such a rate that she seemed actually to crowd the sea into a heap before her; and the water poured over the spritsail yard as it would over a dam.