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Spritsail

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Noun

1. spritsail

a fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Spritsail

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noun nautical
1. 
a rectangular sail mounted on a sprit in some 19th-century small vessels
2. 
(in medieval rigging) a square sail mounted on a yard on the bowsprit

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Spritsail

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noun
a sail extended by a sprit

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Spritsail

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n.
A quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail extended by a spar running diagonally to the sail's peak.

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