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square sail
noun
a sail set beneath a horizontal yard, the normal position of which, when not trimmed to the wind, is directly athwartships.
square sail
noun
nautical a rectangular or square sail set on a horizontal yard rigged more or less athwartships
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of square sail1
Example Sentences
There was no sign of an anchor, a mast or the square sail typically used by Mediterranean trade ships of the time.
Some of the ships under development use soft, square sails stacked onto masts, like the famously fast clipper ships of the 19th century, but with sleeker, larger designs.
Directly ahead of him, across the river with its vivid, square sails, rose the high east bank and the other half of the ancient city of Thebes.
Downward from this yard he wove on the wind's loom a sail of spells, a square sail white as the snows on Gont peak above.
It will accommodate 14 long oars and has a small, square sail.
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