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mizzen

[miz-uhn] / ˈmɪz ən /


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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

He lowers his mizzen and rejects her once again.

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

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

With the assistance of the three Indians Mostyn bent a rope span to the yard and boom of the mizzen sail.

From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman


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