Sentence example with the word 'mizzen'

mizzen

Definition n. third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts

Last update: October 17, 2015


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Upon each side of the Pequod's quarter deck, and pretty close to the mizzen shrouds, there was an auger hole, bored about half an inch or so, into the plank.   [Please select]

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Slack out the mizzen-sheet a little, Jack.   [Please select]

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Amyas leaped into the mizzen rigging, and looked through the smoke.   [Please select]

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Amyas shouted for the boarders, and in two minutes more he was over the side, and clutching at the Spaniard's mizzen rigging.   [Please select]

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The main and mizzen masts were now cut away, to prevent her upsetting, and she was quite clear of her deck load.   [Please select]

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In the mizzen staystail of the General Monk there were afterwards counted, three hundred and sixty-five shot-holes.   [Please select]

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Get number three jib up, and the leg of mutton mizzen; put two reefs in the foresail.   [Please select]

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