spritsailn.

Brit.

/ˈsprɪts(ə)l/,

/ˈsprɪtseɪl/, U.S.

/ˈsprɪtsəl/,

/ˈsprɪtˌseɪl/

Forms: see sprit n.¹ and sail n.¹; also 1500s spridsaile, 1500s sprits sailes (plural), 1600s sprissel, 1600s sprisle.

Etymology: < sprit n.¹ + sail n.¹ Compare Dutch sprietzeil, German Sprietsegel.

Nautical.

1. In some square-rigged vessels: a small, square sail attached to a yard slung under the bowsprit. Cf. sprit n.¹ 3a. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set under bowsprit

spritsail1466

Jamie Green1866

Jimmy Green1913

1466 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 344 My mastyr paid to Willyam Elyse for to carye his sprete seyle of the kervelle to Yipswyche.

1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 41 Spritt sailes feble, j.

1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. xxix. f. 72^v The Captaine generall commanded..to fardle vp their sprits sailes.

1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. F2^v Our topsailes vp, we trusse our spritsailes in.

a1641 T. Heywood & W. Rowley Fortune by Land & Sea (1655) iv. 36 Our Spright-sayl, Top sail, and Top-gallant..are hung with waving pendants.

1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. xviii. 78 He..made 'em..take in their Spreet-sail.

1709 C. Mather Sailours Compan. 54 Make use of this little Time..to take in the spret-sail.

1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 107 We unbent the Mizzen and Sprit-sail.

1839 F. Marryat Phantom Ship I. viii. 165 She carried a square spritsail and sprit-topsail.

1913 E. K. Chatterton Ships & Ways of Other Days xii. 265 The reader will remember we called attention some time back to those spritsails which seem so curious to us moderns.

1973 P. O'Brian HMS Surprise (1996) ix. 292 Mr Babbington, jump forward and tell me whether the spritsail will stand.

2011 B. C. Lane Ravished by Beauty 153 Sailors would hurry to settle the topsails, take in the spretsail, and furl tightly any loose sheets.

a. A four-sided, fore-and-aft sail extended from the mast by a sprit (sprit n.¹ 3b).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set on a sprit

blind1535

spritsail1750

1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor 150 Smacks are necessary Transporting Vessels, with one Mast and half Spreet-sail.

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 42 Barges, Pinnaces, and Yawls, with Sprit-sails.

1872 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 25 June She was to be fitted with two masts and rigged with a spreet-sail seven feet in height.

1891 Spectator 7 Feb. 211/1 The spritsail, the object of which is to get the advantage of a lofty peak and retain a short mast.

1906 J. London Tales of Fish Patrol i. 22 The salmon boat got up its spritsail and headed down the bay.

1962 Country Life 6 Dec. 1451/2 The spritsail was used in the eastern Mediterranean in Roman times.

2012 N.Z. Herald 7 Feb. (Travel section) The gentlest breeze is all that is necessary to send our long pulling boat with its little spritsail effortlessly across..the bay.

b. A sailing barge rigged with such a sail. Also more fully spritsail barge. Cf. spritty n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > sailing-barge

gabbart1487

wherry1589

piragua1667

schooner barge1819

spritsail1867

stumpy1881

sailing-barge1886

spritty1920

sailor-man1948

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > barge > sailing

gabbart1487

Western barge1506

wherry1589

west country1651

piragua1667

schooner barge1819

spritsail1867

stumpy1881

sailing-barge1886

spritty1920

sailor-man1948

1867 Era 14 July 6/4 (heading) The stumps or spritsails.

1881 Standard 22 June 3/7 The leading topsail barges at this part of the race overhauled the spritsails.

1906 Rep. Mass. Comm. Fisheries & Game 10 The power dory and the mastless power launches are replacing the picturesque sailing dories and ‘spritsails’ for shore fishing.

1960 Country Life 31 Mar. 695/1 A recent arrival..was the wooden spritsail barge Memory, of Ipswich, one of the last seven engineless traders still afloat.

2004 Essex Chron. (Nexis) 22 July 72 The Faversham-owned spritsail, which is chartered out of Maldon, lies in fourth place overall.

Compounds

C1. attributive.

a. In the sense ‘of or belonging to a spritsail’ (in sense 1 or sense 2), as spritsail brace, spritsail mast, etc. Cf. spritsail topmast n., spritsail topsail n. at Compounds 2, spritsail yard n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [adjective] > of or relating to spritsail

spritsail1599

1599 T. Dallam Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) i. 59 Myssen top, sprid saile top.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. 16 Let go the Sprit sail Breales, and hale aft the Sheets.

1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. vi. v. 425 Our men bravely quitted themselves of the Fire-ship by cutting the Sprit-sail-Tackle off with their short Hatchets.

1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 112 Sprit-sail Lifts.

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 135 Spritsail-Topgallant-sail is quadrilateral,..and is bent on the head, to the spritsail-topgallant-yard.

1838 F. Chamier Jack Adams I. ii. 32 He secured himself by holding on to the spritsail brace.

1854 C. Bushell Rigger's Guide 14 The fork of the eye that goes over the Spritsail Gaff.

1989 tr. W. zu Mondfeld Hist. Ship Models 320 Spritsail clew lines belayed to a cleat in the head before 1720.

2005 T. Keneally Commonw. of Thieves (2007) xxiii. 245 He had chartered a..small, square-rigged ship which carried an additional sprit-sail mast aft of the main-mast.

b. In the sense ‘having a four-sided, fore-and-aft sail extended from the mast by a sprit’ (cf. sense 2), as spritsail boat, spritsail dinghy, spritsail yacht, etc. Cf. spritsail barge at sense 2b.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [adjective] > rigged > in specific ways

lateen1540

high-riggeda1547

tall1548

well-rigged1577

under-sailed1599

over-rigged1627

schooner-rigged1769

sloop-rigged1769

ketch-rigged1775

spritsail1791

brig-rigged1796

square-rigged1802

ship-rigged1803

taunt-rigged1825

Bermudian-rigged1846

Bermudian1847

maphrodite1849

bark-rigged1858

butter-rigged1881

jackass rigged1883

1791 World 1 Feb. 1 Small sprit sail Boat and Materials.

1800 Ann. Reg. 1798 (Otridge ed.) Chron. 40/2 As a sprit-sail vessel..was coming up the river.

1885 Boy's Own Paper Christmas No. 42/1 In another reach a spritsail yacht was giving some skaters a tow.

1908 Forest & Stream 11 Apr. 582/1 I left New Rochelle in my little 11ft. spritsail skiff.

2014 R. Barnes Dinghy Cruising Compan. iii. 71 (caption) A spritsail dinghy drifts gently across a small lake.

C2.

spritsail topmast n. now historical (in some square-rigged vessels) a short mast stepped upright at the end of the bowsprit; cf. sprit topmast n. at sprit n.¹ Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 12 The spret sayle top mast.

1754 M. Murray Treat. Ship-building & Navigation 115 Spritsail top mast.

1890 R. C. Leslie Old Sea Wings, Ways, & Words iii. 38 The jibboom, which in the eighteenth century..superseded this old spritsail-topmast.

1927 Geogr. Jrnl. 69 226 The spritsail topmast at the bowsprit-end, so typical of seventeenth-century men-of-war.

2011 F. Hocker in A. Catsambris et al. Oxf. Handbk. Maritime Archaeol. xx. 454 In the first half of the eighteenth century, the lateen mizzen was replaced.., and the spritsail topmast disappeared.

spritsail topsail n. now historical (in some square-rigged vessels) a sail set ahead of the spritsail (sense 1), either on the bowsprit or on the spritsail topmast; cf. sprit topsail n. at sprit n.¹ Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1600 Court Rec. 26 Sept. in H. Stevens Dawn Brit. Trade E. Indies (1886) 18 Her sprit saile spritesaile top saile rigginge.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (at cited word) Formerly the spritsail-topsails were set on a mast, which was erected..on the end of the bowsprit.

1805 Times 24 Apr. 2/2 I directed the spritsail top-sail to be set also.

1908 United Service Mag. Feb. 462 The mizzen topsail was introduced in the time of James I., and the spritsail topsail at about the same date.

2011 J. Sephton Sovereign of Seas 16 On the foremost end of her bowsprit she carried a small spritsail topmast. Here was rigged a spritsail topsail.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	spritsail
释义	spritsailn. Brit. /ˈsprɪts(ə)l/, /ˈsprɪtseɪl/, U.S. /ˈsprɪtsəl/, /ˈsprɪtˌseɪl/ Forms: see sprit n.¹ and sail n.¹; also 1500s spridsaile, 1500s sprits sailes (plural), 1600s sprissel, 1600s sprisle. Etymology: < sprit n.¹ + sail n.¹ Compare Dutch sprietzeil, German Sprietsegel. Nautical. 1. In some square-rigged vessels: a small, square sail attached to a yard slung under the bowsprit. Cf. sprit n.¹ 3a. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set under bowsprit spritsail1466 Jamie Green1866 Jimmy Green1913 1466 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 344 My mastyr paid to Willyam Elyse for to carye his sprete seyle of the kervelle to Yipswyche. 1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 41 Spritt sailes feble, j. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. xxix. f. 72^v The Captaine generall commanded..to fardle vp their sprits sailes. 1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. F2^v Our topsailes vp, we trusse our spritsailes in. a1641 T. Heywood & W. Rowley Fortune by Land & Sea (1655) iv. 36 Our Spright-sayl, Top sail, and Top-gallant..are hung with waving pendants. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. xviii. 78 He..made 'em..take in their Spreet-sail. 1709 C. Mather Sailours Compan. 54 Make use of this little Time..to take in the spret-sail. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 107 We unbent the Mizzen and Sprit-sail. 1839 F. Marryat Phantom Ship I. viii. 165 She carried a square spritsail and sprit-topsail. 1913 E. K. Chatterton Ships & Ways of Other Days xii. 265 The reader will remember we called attention some time back to those spritsails which seem so curious to us moderns. 1973 P. O'Brian HMS Surprise (1996) ix. 292 Mr Babbington, jump forward and tell me whether the spritsail will stand. 2011 B. C. Lane Ravished by Beauty 153 Sailors would hurry to settle the topsails, take in the spretsail, and furl tightly any loose sheets. 2. a. A four-sided, fore-and-aft sail extended from the mast by a sprit (sprit n.¹ 3b). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set on a sprit blind1535 spritsail1750 1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor 150 Smacks are necessary Transporting Vessels, with one Mast and half Spreet-sail. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 42 Barges, Pinnaces, and Yawls, with Sprit-sails. 1872 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 25 June She was to be fitted with two masts and rigged with a spreet-sail seven feet in height. 1891 Spectator 7 Feb. 211/1 The spritsail, the object of which is to get the advantage of a lofty peak and retain a short mast. 1906 J. London Tales of Fish Patrol i. 22 The salmon boat got up its spritsail and headed down the bay. 1962 Country Life 6 Dec. 1451/2 The spritsail was used in the eastern Mediterranean in Roman times. 2012 N.Z. Herald 7 Feb. (Travel section) The gentlest breeze is all that is necessary to send our long pulling boat with its little spritsail effortlessly across..the bay. b. A sailing barge rigged with such a sail. Also more fully spritsail barge. Cf. spritty n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > sailing-barge gabbart1487 wherry1589 piragua1667 schooner barge1819 spritsail1867 stumpy1881 sailing-barge1886 spritty1920 sailor-man1948 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > barge > sailing gabbart1487 Western barge1506 wherry1589 west country1651 piragua1667 schooner barge1819 spritsail1867 stumpy1881 sailing-barge1886 spritty1920 sailor-man1948 1867 Era 14 July 6/4 (heading) The stumps or spritsails. 1881 Standard 22 June 3/7 The leading topsail barges at this part of the race overhauled the spritsails. 1906 Rep. Mass. Comm. Fisheries & Game 10 The power dory and the mastless power launches are replacing the picturesque sailing dories and ‘spritsails’ for shore fishing. 1960 Country Life 31 Mar. 695/1 A recent arrival..was the wooden spritsail barge Memory, of Ipswich, one of the last seven engineless traders still afloat. 2004 Essex Chron. (Nexis) 22 July 72 The Faversham-owned spritsail, which is chartered out of Maldon, lies in fourth place overall. Compounds C1. attributive. a. In the sense ‘of or belonging to a spritsail’ (in sense 1 or sense 2), as spritsail brace, spritsail mast, etc. Cf. spritsail topmast n., spritsail topsail n. at Compounds 2, spritsail yard n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [adjective] > of or relating to spritsail spritsail1599 1599 T. Dallam Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) i. 59 Myssen top, sprid saile top. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. 16 Let go the Sprit sail Breales, and hale aft the Sheets. 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. vi. v. 425 Our men bravely quitted themselves of the Fire-ship by cutting the Sprit-sail-Tackle off with their short Hatchets. 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 112 Sprit-sail Lifts. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 135 Spritsail-Topgallant-sail is quadrilateral,..and is bent on the head, to the spritsail-topgallant-yard. 1838 F. Chamier Jack Adams I. ii. 32 He secured himself by holding on to the spritsail brace. 1854 C. Bushell Rigger's Guide 14 The fork of the eye that goes over the Spritsail Gaff. 1989 tr. W. zu Mondfeld Hist. Ship Models 320 Spritsail clew lines belayed to a cleat in the head before 1720. 2005 T. Keneally Commonw. of Thieves (2007) xxiii. 245 He had chartered a..small, square-rigged ship which carried an additional sprit-sail mast aft of the main-mast. b. In the sense ‘having a four-sided, fore-and-aft sail extended from the mast by a sprit’ (cf. sense 2), as spritsail boat, spritsail dinghy, spritsail yacht, etc. Cf. spritsail barge at sense 2b. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [adjective] > rigged > in specific ways lateen1540 high-riggeda1547 tall1548 well-rigged1577 under-sailed1599 over-rigged1627 schooner-rigged1769 sloop-rigged1769 ketch-rigged1775 spritsail1791 brig-rigged1796 square-rigged1802 ship-rigged1803 taunt-rigged1825 Bermudian-rigged1846 Bermudian1847 maphrodite1849 bark-rigged1858 butter-rigged1881 jackass rigged1883 1791 World 1 Feb. 1 Small sprit sail Boat and Materials. 1800 Ann. Reg. 1798 (Otridge ed.) Chron. 40/2 As a sprit-sail vessel..was coming up the river. 1885 Boy's Own Paper Christmas No. 42/1 In another reach a spritsail yacht was giving some skaters a tow. 1908 Forest & Stream 11 Apr. 582/1 I left New Rochelle in my little 11ft. spritsail skiff. 2014 R. Barnes Dinghy Cruising Compan. iii. 71 (caption) A spritsail dinghy drifts gently across a small lake. C2. spritsail topmast n. now historical (in some square-rigged vessels) a short mast stepped upright at the end of the bowsprit; cf. sprit topmast n. at sprit n.¹ Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 12 The spret sayle top mast. 1754 M. Murray Treat. Ship-building & Navigation 115 Spritsail top mast. 1890 R. C. Leslie Old Sea Wings, Ways, & Words iii. 38 The jibboom, which in the eighteenth century..superseded this old spritsail-topmast. 1927 Geogr. Jrnl. 69 226 The spritsail topmast at the bowsprit-end, so typical of seventeenth-century men-of-war. 2011 F. Hocker in A. Catsambris et al. Oxf. Handbk. Maritime Archaeol. xx. 454 In the first half of the eighteenth century, the lateen mizzen was replaced.., and the spritsail topmast disappeared. spritsail topsail n. now historical (in some square-rigged vessels) a sail set ahead of the spritsail (sense 1), either on the bowsprit or on the spritsail topmast; cf. sprit topsail n. at sprit n.¹ Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1600 Court Rec. 26 Sept. in H. Stevens Dawn Brit. Trade E. Indies (1886) 18 Her sprit saile spritesaile top saile rigginge. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (at cited word) Formerly the spritsail-topsails were set on a mast, which was erected..on the end of the bowsprit. 1805 Times 24 Apr. 2/2 I directed the spritsail top-sail to be set also. 1908 United Service Mag. Feb. 462 The mizzen topsail was introduced in the time of James I., and the spritsail topsail at about the same date. 2011 J. Sephton Sovereign of Seas 16 On the foremost end of her bowsprit she carried a small spritsail topmast. Here was rigged a spritsail topsail. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1466
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