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
He lowers his mizzen and rejects her once again.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the small-boat sailor its puzzle of channels and fog is better than any cadaver by the mizzen.
From Time Magazine Archive
"El Toro, come aft," cried Carew, who had acquired enough Spanish to give his orders in that tongue; "come aft, and set up that mizzen rigging; it's as slack as possible."
From A Desperate Voyage by Edward Frederick Knight
