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Skysail   Listen
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Skysail  n.  (Naut.) The sail set next above the royal.






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"Skysail" Quotes from Famous Books



... either side far beyond the 15 deck; the topmost studding sails like wings to the topsails; the topgallant studding sails spreading fearlessly out above them; still higher the two royal studding sails, looking like two kites flying from the same string; and highest of all the little skysail, the apex of the pyramid, seeming 20 actually to touch the stars and to be out of reach of human hand. So quiet, too, was the sea, and so steady the breeze, that if these sails had been sculptured in marble they could not have been more motionless—not a ripple on the surface of the ...
— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell



Words linked to "Skysail" :   sail, canvas, canvass



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