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
Then came word that a freighter had discovered Crowhurst's yacht, ghosting along under its mizzen but still seaworthy, mysteriously abandoned in mid-Atlantic.
From Time Magazine Archive
He lowers his mizzen and rejects her once again.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has fallen from the mizzen rigging this time; not from a great height, luckily.
From A Desperate Voyage by Edward Frederick Knight
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