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

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

At the main and mizzen and at the peak he flew the Stars and Stripes, while at the fore he displayed the motto flag: "Free trade and sailors' rights."

From Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 by Barnes, James