English Explanatory Dictionary

staysail

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff can be affixed to a stay running forward from a mast to the deck, the bowsprit or to another mast.

Word forms

staysail staysails

Etymology

From stay + sail.

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