Crossword-Solution: TRYSAIL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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”
| Clue | Answers |
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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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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1992–2021).