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Definition of Trysails
1. trysail [n] - See also: trysail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trysails
Literary usage of Trysails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1866)
"... 9 took in mizen topsail, about 10 wind shifted sudden to NE About 11'30 am
furled fore and mainsails set fore and main storm trysails, wind freshing up ..."
2. Modern Seamanship by Austin Melvin Knight (1921)
"The fore-and-aft sails are the fore-and-main trysails, the spanker ... The trysails
are called also spencers, and the spanker is often called the driver. ..."
3. A Memoir on the Equinoctial Storms of March by F. P. B. Martin (1852)
"9 30 In first reef fore and main trysails, and set them. Noon. ... 0.48 4 pm
Strong gales, with heavy squalls ; close reefed trysails and set ..."
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