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