Crossword-Solution: STUNSAILS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

And away a couple of frigates were starting To race to Java with all sails set, Topgallants, and royals, and stunsails, and jibs, And wide moonsails; and the shining rails Were polished so bright they sparked in the sun.

And still as he worked at the toy on his knee He would spin his old yarns of the ships and the sea, _Thermopylæ_, _Lightning_, _Lothair_ and _Red Jacket_, With many another such famous old packet, And many a bucko and dare-devil skipper In Liverpool blood-boat or Colonies' clipper; The sail that they carried aboard the _Black Ball_, Their skysails and stunsails and ringtail and all, And storms that they weathered and races they won And records they broke in the days that are done.

But we were to windward of the galley, and, our stunsails coming in with a run, we were able to haul close upon a wind almost as quickly as the galley, when--the latter now depending upon her oars alone--the schooner proved to be considerably the faster of the two, thus effectually cutting off our antagonist's escape in that direction.

But our worthy "first" speedily justified his boast; for his shot struck the boom-iron at the Frenchman's larboard fore-yard-arm, snapping it off, unshipping the boom, and creating a very pretty state of confusion with the topmast and lower stunsails and their gear.

This was not answered at all; on the contrary, the Frenchman hauled down his lanterns and wore short round, crowding sail at the same moment; whereupon the "Amethyst" also bore up again and--Clewline must have had his men aloft all the time, ready for the emergency--as she squared away in chase, we saw her stunsails fluttering out to their boom-ends on both sides.