Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast.
- noun A mizzenmast.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Noting the hindmost pair of horns in a five-horned giraffe, a small pair of projections arising from the lambdoid crest, back of the larger frontal horns.
- noun Nautical, the aftermost fore-and-aft sail in a ship, set abaft the mizzenmast, and having its head extended by a gaff; a spanker. See
spanker .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Naut.) Hindmost; nearest the stern
- noun (Naut.) The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical
mizzenmast - noun nautical A
fore-and-aft sail set on a mizzenmast.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy
- noun fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Puff follows puff, and I am glad the mizzen is furled.
Chapter 9 1913
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Puff follows puff, and I am glad the mizzen is furled.
Chapter 9 1911
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The tall mast is the mainmast, the short mast is the mizzen; some ketches carry square sails on the main, some carry a topsail on the mizzen -- the distinctive mark of the ketch being that the mizzen is a pole-mast and stepped in front of the stern-post.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various
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The top of the mizzen was the first to disappear, then followed the main-top; and soon, of what had been a noble vessel, not a vestige was to be seen.
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American and other, were at half-mast, as was the admiral's square blue flag at the mizzen, which is never lowered while he remains on duty on board.
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The top of the mizzen was the first to disappear, then followed the main-top; and soon, of what had been a noble vessel, not a vestige was to be seen.
The Survivors of the Chancellor, diary of J.R. Kazallon, passenger Jules Verne 1866
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The students sat in the open cockpit to learn terms such as mizzen mast, jib and stanchion.
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" "Raft coming!" called the mizzen lookout, stimulat-ing a rush toward the stern.
Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979
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When I finished, I pulled my sleeping bag out from the foot locker, hauled it up top to the main deck and spread it out between the main and mizzen masts.
Jerry Nelson: Sea Spray and Time Travel Jerry Nelson 2012
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When I finished, I pulled my sleeping bag out from the foot locker, hauled it up top to the main deck and spread it out between the main and mizzen masts.
Jerry Nelson: Sea Spray and Time Travel Jerry Nelson 2012
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