stunsail

English

Noun

stunsail (plural stunsails)

  1. (nautical) studding sail
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 41
      And, when running into more sufferable latitudes, the ship, with mild stun’sails spread, floated across the tranquil tropics […]

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