NOUN
- a four-sided sail set beneath a horizontal yard suspended at the middle from a mast
How To Use square sail In A Sentence
- There was also a small square sail which would be hoisted to a yard on the foremast and two trysails to be hoisted on the jigger.
- Her rig is barquentine with fore and aft sails on all except the forward most mast which has 3 square sails.
- At first when sails triumphed over oars, a large square sail was rigged on the mainmast while two smaller sails fore and aft gave the ship maneuverability.
- Such ships were robustly built with stout planking secured to massive framing timbers, with a single mast possibly rigged with a square sail.
- The tall mast is the mainmast, the short mast is the mizzen; some ketches carry square sails on the main, some carry a topsail on the mizzen -- the distinctive mark of the ketch being that the mizzen is a pole-mast and stepped in front of the stern-post. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
- The square sails themselves are controlled by drawlines called clew-garnets running up from the lower corners, leechlines running in diagonally from the middle of the outside edges, buntlines running up from the foot, and spilling lines, to spill the wind in heavy {107} weather. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
- Her rig is barquentine with fore and aft sails on all except the forward most mast which has 3 square sails.
- For running in high seas we put a large square sail forward, tripping the yard along the foremast, much like a spinnaker boom.
- The ships were rigged with a single square sail.
- Her foremast carried square sails; her main and mizzen masts were schooner-rigged. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
