star-gazer
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A triangular sail set above the skysail; if square it would be a moonsail, and if set above that, a star-gazer, &c.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
Jason appointed Tiphys to be helmsman, because he was a star-gazer, and knew the points of the compass.
From A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales For girls and boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
He felt that if he had not rushed incontinently from the presence of that underground star-gazer Dr. Wilson, he must either have punched that respected person’s venerated head, or have laughed in his honored face.
From The Witches of New York by Q. K. Philander Doesticks
Within the hour Lynn Gordon rode back down the hill, and passed the window very slowly, watching the curtain as a star-gazer awaits the passing of a cloud.
From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Nancy Huston Banks
What matter what happens to the useless old star-gazer?
From Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley
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