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sky⋅sail

  [skahy-seyl; Naut. skahy-suhl]
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–noun Nautical.
1. (in a square-rigged vessel) a light square sail next above the royal.
2. a triangular sail set on a stay between the fore and main trucks of a racing schooner.
Origin:
1820–30; sky + sail
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sky·sail   (skī'səl, -sāl')   
n.  A small square sail above the royal in a square-rigged vessel.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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