Definition of Square sail

1. Noun. A four-sided sail set beneath a horizontal yard suspended at the middle from a mast.

Generic synonyms: Canvas, Canvass, Sail, Sheet

Definition of Square sail

1. Noun. (nautical) A sail bent to a horizontal yard set athwartships. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Square Sail

square metre
square metres
square mile
square miles
square nut
square off
square one
square peg in a round hole
square peg into a round hole
square pyramid
square pyramids
square rigged
square rod
square root
square roots
square sail (current term)
square sails
square scooter
square scooters
square shooter
square tab shingle
square tab shingles
square the circle
square toes
square up
square wave
square wave stimuli
square yard
square yards
squared

Literary usage of Square sail

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"... the lower corners of a square sail, and the after lower corner of other sails, dews; the front lower corner of a fore-and-aft sail is the tack. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In the first experiments for impelling vessels by sails the least complicated form, that of a single square sail erected on ..."

3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1868)
"... the lower corners of a square sail, and the after lower corner of other sails, clews; the front lower corner of a fore-and-aft sail is the iaci. ..."

4. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"I have derived great assistance from a small square sail which was fixed up on the day we left the mouth of the river j and to prevent any ill-effects from ..."

5. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"See ROOF. See Fig. 4420, 10 ; Fig. 4421, 17. Square-sail. (. ... Of a square-sail,— * The upper edge is the ..."

6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Square-sail (set flying). Fore-sail. Boom-main-sail. ... of any bui a square-sail, is called the " luff," and the other edge the "after-leech. ..."

7. Outing (1893)
"The sail can be trimmed-in far more closely than is the case with a square sail, and for the same reason if by any accident the boat be steered too near the ..."

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