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Definition of Mizzen
1. 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.
2. Noun. Fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast.
Definition of Mizzen
1. a. Hindmost; nearest the stern; as, the mizzen shrouds, sails, etc.
2. n. The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker.
Definition of Mizzen
1. Noun. (nautical) mizzenmast ¹
2. Noun. (nautical) A fore-and-aft sail set on a mizzenmast. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mizzen
1. a type of sail [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mizzen
Literary usage of Mizzen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping by Herbert B. Mason (1908)
"mizzen royal-staysail. A light sail set on a stay on the mizzen-mast, ...
mizzen royal staysail-sheet. Ropes or chains fastened to one or both of the lower ..."
2. The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Common Things by John Denison Champlin (1884)
"Jio; 16, Flying jib; 17, Spanker; 18, Spenser; 19, Main-royal staysail; 20,
Main-topgallant staysail; 21, mizzen royal staysail. yard and the mainsail ..."
3. Rudder by Thomas Fleming Day (1912)
"The ketch rig is a fore- and-aft two-masted rig with headsails, and the mizzen
smaller than the mainsail, and the mizzen mast stepped forward of the ..."
4. Can Grande's Castle by Amy Lowell (1918)
"Rattling upon it, rain on a tin roof, the pop-pop of muskets from the mizzen-top
of the Redoubtable. There are sharpshooters in the mizzen-top, ..."
5. Sailors' Language: A Collection of Sea-terms and Their Definitions by William Clark Russell (1883)
"mizzen.—A large fore-and-aft sail on the mizzen-mast of a ship or barque. ...
The mast above the mizzen lower mast. mizzen-topmast staysail. ..."
6. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"Mar-s. mizzen; bie ... n. throat brail of the mizzen; —flagge,/, flag-union,
gallant; —mu|t, m. mizzen, ... n. mizzen sail; —flag, n. mizzen-stay; ..."
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