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Definition of Skysails
1. skysail [n] - See also: skysail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skysails
Literary usage of Skysails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-four Years After by Richard Henry Dana (1909)
"The next day, about three PM, passed a large corvette- built ship, close upon
the wind, with royals and skysails set fore and aft, under English colors. ..."
2. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea by Richard Henry Dana, Charles Welsh (1907)
"The next day, about three PM, passed a large corvette- built ship, close upon
the wind, with royals and skysails set fore and aft, under English colors. ..."
3. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea by Richard Henry Dana, Charles Welsh (1907)
"The next day, about three p. si., passed a large corvette- built ship, close upon
the wind, with royals and skysails set fore and aft, under English colors. ..."
4. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1869)
"... close upon the wind, with royals and skysails set fore and aft, under English
colors. She was standing south-by-east, probably bound round Cape Horn. ..."
5. Two years before the mast: or, A voice from the forecastle by Richard Henry Dana (1854)
"The next day, about three PM, passed a large corvette-built ship, close upon the
wind, with royals and skysails set fore aud aft, under English colours. ..."
6. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1911)
"We had an advantage over her in light winds, from our royals and skysails which
we carried both at the fore and main, and also from our studding-sails; ..."
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