Definitionn. a light spar that crosses a fore-and-aft sail diagonally
Last update: October 2, 2015
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"It is the Evil Sprit of Cambyses." [Please select]
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She was furling tops and mainsail, stripping in fact to mizzen and sprit for the coming action. [Please select]
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The goodwife was stirring the soup, and the goodman plaiting sprit-binnings for the cows. [Please select]
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Upon the clearing up of the smoke, eight or ten French ships were seen, some totally dismasted and others with only one mast standing, endeavouring to make off under their sprit-sails. [Please select]
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I waited to give Charley all the time I could, and I pretended dissatisfaction with the stretch of the sail and slightly shifted the small tackle by which the huge sprit forces up the peak. [Please select]
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