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- noun A
sail bent to ahorizontal yard setathwartships .
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Examples
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And crack on he did, with a large tarpaulin squaresail which pressed the bow half under at every jump.
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And crack on he did, with a large tarpaulin squaresail which pressed the bow half under at every jump.
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Rasmunsen shot a glance over his shoulder at a black squaresail.
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Set our spritsail, topsail & squaresail, with a fair breeze of wind.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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Cutter was an open boat of about thirty-five feet keel, painted red inside and black without, except a streak of white about two inches wide; calculated for rowing or sailing -- prepared with long sweeps, and carrying a jib, foresail, mainsail, and squaresail.
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Captain Bones fine sea tale, The Brassbounder, published in 1910, has become a classic of the squaresail era; his Broken Stowage (1915) is a collection of shorter sea sketches.
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Here had been the Phenicians with their brailed squaresail.
The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908
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Rasmunsen shot a glance over his shoulder at a black squaresail.
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The wind was blowing heavy to the eastward, and we carried a whole mainsail, squaresail and topsail.
Life of George Henry : together with a brief history of the colored people in America, 1894
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We had of course taken the precaution to get down a couple of reefs in our topsail, and the same in the foresail, as well as to haul down the squaresail and get the bonnet off the jib before leaving the
The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast Harry Collingwood 1886
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