SPRITSAIL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("spritsail" is a kind of...):

fore-and-aft sail (any sail not set on a yard and whose normal position is in a fore-and-aft direction)

Meronyms (parts of "spritsail"):

sprit (a light spar that crosses a fore-and-aft sail diagonally)

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