Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nautical: Having, as a course or topsail, only one clue set, the middle of the sail and the other clue being securely furled.
- Having, as a fore-and-aft rigged vessel running before the wind, the foresail set on one side and the mainsail on the other: an epithet applied also to the sails. Also
wing-and-wing .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a “goosewing.”
- adjective Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective nautical Having a
goosewing ; said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel withforesail set on one side andmainsail on the other.
Etymologies
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goosewing + -ed
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