How to use staysail in a sentence
He could see the Cashmere run out her lower studding-sails and her staysails, to take advantage of the rising wind.
Toilers of the Sea | Victor HugoThe only canvas she had set was a close-reefed main-topsail, and two small storm-staysails, one forward and the other aft.
The Pathfinder | James Fenimore CooperThese staysails take their names from the stays on which they run.
Large square-rigged vessels have sails for the express purpose, called storm-staysails.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe | Edgar Allan PoeIt must be remembered that we all had everything on, even to balloon and staysails, and our halyards were lashed aloft.
The Seiners | James B. (James Brendan) Connolly
British Dictionary definitions for staysail
/ (ˈsteɪˌseɪl, ˈsteɪsəl) nautical /
an auxiliary sail, often triangular, set to catch the wind, as between the masts of a yawl (mizzen staysail), aft of a spinnaker (spinnaker staysail), etc
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