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
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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To the small-boat sailor its puzzle of channels and fog is better than any cadaver by the mizzen.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Over this was spread the mizzen sail, the ends of the ridge-tent being enclosed by means of the jib and a couple of oilskin jackets.
From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)