mizzen

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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

To its critics, it seemed a perfectly preserved specimen of 19th century British culture, like a sailing ship in a sealed bottle�even to the Union Jack at the mizzen top.

From Time Magazine Archive

Santa Maria's mainmast reaches 192 feet above the waterline, the mizzen to 158 feet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, languidly raising his hairy legs and wagging them like flags, the old hand semaphored a request for jam to a pal in the port mizzen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then came another crash, the main and mizzen masts went over the side, and after one or two violent motions the Gannet remained hard and fast, the heavy seas pouring right over her.

From A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)