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Crossword-Solution: TRYSAIL 7 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Trysail n. A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a
lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a
lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer.

We have 10 clues for the answer “TRYSAIL”

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FORE-and-aft sail set with gaff 1 answer
It keeps a vessel windward in a storm 1 answer
It's attached to a mast in storms 1 answer
It's hoisted on a brig in high winds 1 answer
Ship's special canvas 1 answer
small fore-and-aft sail on a sailing vessel 1 answer
small triangular or square fore-and-aft rigged sail 1 answer
fore-and-aft sail 5 answers
AID FOR UPWIND MANEUVERS 10 answers
Canvas 23 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
RAAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with TRYSAIL (5)

Having called all hands, we close-reefed the topsails and trysail, furled the courses and job, set the fore-top-mast staysail, and brought her up nearly to her course, with the weather braces hauled in a little, to ease her.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 2000
This time, we did not heave to, as on the night before, but endeavored to beat to windward under close-reefed top-sails, balance-reefed trysail, and fore top-mast stay-sail.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 2000
Again it was clew up and haul down, reef and furl, until we had got her down to close-reefed topsails, double-reefed trysail, and reefed forespenser.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 2000
About daybreak there came on a stiff breeze from the west, which at noon freshened into a gale, so that the brig could carry nothing more than her trysail and foresail.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 3 Edgar Allan Poe 2000
Now, gentle reader, what would you do if you were on a small boat, rolling in the trough of the sea, a trysail on that small boat’s stern that was unable to swing the bow up into the wind? Get out the sea-anchor.
The Cruise of the Snark Jack London 2000
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Appears in: NY Sun, NYT, Universal.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1992–2021).