moonshine

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A triangular sail set above the skysail; if square it would be a moonsail, and if set above that, a star-gazer, &c.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

The square sails on the mainmast are called, when eight are carried, the mainsail, lower and upper maintopsails, lower and upper maintopgallants, main-royal, main-skysail, and the moonsail.

From All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways by Wood, William Charles Henry