mizzen
Example Sentences
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I now have to keep fencing with Accrux while I have managed to throw your sword flying and getting stuck into the mizzen mast.
From Economist ● Nov. 15, 2012
The top of the Bristol's mainmast was shot clean off, and her mizzen was splintered.
From Time Magazine Archive
Isabel and the Sea will make even a coal miner imagine himself "running free under number-two jib, staysail, mainsail, and mizzen . . . setting course for the volcanic island of Stromboli."
From Time Magazine Archive
He lowers his mizzen and rejects her once again.
From Time Magazine Archive
Farther aft, but on the centre line, a tent made from the boat's mizzen sail had been set up for Olive's use.
From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
