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
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
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The top of the Bristol's mainmast was shot clean off, and her mizzen was splintered.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We have been sailing at around 80 percent with just the No. 4 jib, a trysail and triple-reefed mizzen, but now we have also damaged the mizzen luff track.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The fore topmast was gone, the mizzen damaged, the bulwarks broken, and more like sheep hurdles than anything else, but there was little other damage worth entering in the log-book.
From Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures by Stables, Gordon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.