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square sail
[square a.]
a. A four-sided sail supported by a yard slung across the vessel.
b. A flying sail set on the fore-mast of a schooner or the mast of a sloop or cutter.
1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 309 For which cause they shortned their yardes, prouiding square sailes. 1743Bulkeley & Cummins Voy. S. Seas 117 As the Cutter was coming up to us, her square Sail splitted. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780) s.v. Scudding, A ship..scuds with a sail extended on her fore-mast... In sloops and schooners, and other small vessels, the sail employed for this purpose is called the square-sail. 1794Rigging & Seamanship 127 The cross-jack, or square-sail. 1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) I. 37 The barges which navigate the Severn..carry a square-sail, and have a mainmast and topmast. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 604/2 Square sails, those set upon such yards as have lifts and braces, regardless of their proportions.
attrib.1794Rigging & Seamanship 162 The Square-sail-boom is lashed across the deck of vessels with one mast, to spread the foot of the square-sail. 1823Crabb Technol. Dict. II. s.v., A sloop's or cutter's sail, which hauls out to the lower yard, called the square-sail-yard. 1863A. Young Naut. Dict. 109 Cross-jack-yard..in a sloop or schooner also gets the name of the square sail yard. Ibid. 366 Square sail boom, a boom hooked on to an eye-bolt in the fore part of the foremast in any fore-and-aft-rigged vessel, for the purpose of booming out the square-sail, and setting the lower studding-sail. |