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Definition of Crojik
1. a triangular sail [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crojik
Literary usage of Crojik
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Under Sail by Felix Riesenberg (1918)
"A crojik was carried as well as a spanker. On her stays, she carried flying ...
When on a wind, in a whole-sail breeze, with crojik furled, and spanker set, ..."
2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1873)
"When it comes to "smoke jack," "yellow jack," "cross-jack" (nautice pronounced
crojik), and especially " boot jack," it is time to protest. ..."
3. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1873)
"... ''yellow jack," "cross-jack" (nautice pronounced crojik), and especially "
boot jack," it is time to protest But to burlesque it in " horse jockey," and ..."
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