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Square sail   /skwɛr seɪl/   Listen
Square sail

noun
1.
A four-sided sail set beneath a horizontal yard suspended at the middle from a mast.





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"Square sail" Quotes from Famous Books



... the clapping to of the cabin door and the thunder of the wind in the great square sail as the ship went on the other tack. We had a fair breeze from the southwest over our quarter as the tide set up channel, but now it had turned and Thorgils was wearing ship. The new list of the deck flung the door to, and none ...
— A Prince of Cornwall - A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex • Charles W. Whistler
... caught a sudden human interest in some gracefully modelled canoe gliding out with a crew of Chinook Indians from the shadow of a giant promontory, propelled by a square sail learned of the whites. Knowing the natural, ingrained laziness of Indians, one can imagine the delight with which they comprehended that substitute for the paddle. After all, this may perhaps be an ill-natured thing ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 • Various
... the smart little steamer of the Government Railways, my companion spoke of the extent to which sea-faring men, a conservative class, had abandoned the use of the single square sail which one sees in Japanese prints; the little vessels had been re-rigged in Western fashion. But many superstitions had survived the abolished square sails. The mother of my fellow-traveller once told him ...
— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott


Words linked to "Square sail" :   canvas, canvass, sheet, sail


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