In strong winds, the mizzen mast has a tendency to twist. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : mizzen topmast stay. From Dictionary.com.
Puff follows puff, and I am glad the mizzen is furled. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
The top of the mizzen was the first to disappear, then followed the main-top; and soon, of what had been a noble vessel, not a vestige was to be seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Survivors of the Chancellor, diary of J.R. Kazallon, passenger] Reference
The mizzen is in and fast furled. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
" "Raft coming!" called the mizzen lookout, stimulat-ing a rush toward the stern. From Wordnik.com. [Mission to Moulokin]
We were under close-reefed main and foretop-sails and mizzen. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
On the fifth day, the mizzen-mast was also got back into its place. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
Then I sent off another rope between the main and the mizzen masts. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
The latter again fired and knocked away our mizzen top-gallant mast. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Then they set her close-reefed storm foresail and took her mizzen off. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
The mizzen, being of considerably less diameter than the mainmast, took. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
Her foremast carried square sails; her main and mizzen masts were schooner-rigged. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
"All hands shorten sail!" and stationed himself at his post by the mizzen-halliards. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
Now down with the mizzen sheet! 'cried the coxswain, and ten men flew to the sheets. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
The shot fell short of us; we opened our main-deck guns and brought down her mizzen top-mast. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Her fore and mainmasts were square rigged while her mizzen mast was rigged fore and aft like my little Wavecrest. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
He had, among others, received a letter from his mother, and to be more retired had gone abaft the mizzen-mast to read it. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Others strike near the water-line between the main and mizzen masts, explode within board, or passing through burst afar off. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Kearsarge and Alabama] Reference
The canvas they set will give some idea of the nature of the struggle -- a reefed mizzen and two reefs in the storm foresail. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
"Boom!" went her cannon, and from its mouth a seven-inch shot was hurled over the "Concord," between its main and mizzen masts. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman with a Stone Heart A Romance of the Philippine War] Reference
She was severely hulled between the main and mizzen masts, and commenced settling by the stern before the termination of the conflict. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Kearsarge and Alabama] Reference
Quick as thought I sprang into the mizzen shrouds, rattled up hand over hand, and did not draw a breath till I was seated on the crosstrees. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
The first sketch is one showing the boys undergoing a part of their sail drill, and engaged in furling the mizzen top-gallant-sail and royal. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
I may say I assisted at the operation, being one of the hands who went aloft to set the mizzen-royal; and, I may add, that father told me when. From Wordnik.com. [Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy] Reference
We anchored in the open roadstead, and spent there about ten days, visiting all the usual places of interest, its foretop, main-top, mizzen-top, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The fore-yards are brought round by the run and the mizzen, but the light wind -- growing lighter -- hardly clears the flapping canvas from the spars. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
We had dressed perpendicularly, whilst she had her flags fore and aft, running up to her flying jib-boom from the water, and down to the gaff on her mizzen. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
The mizzen staysail followed suit; and then, seeing that the ship bore the pressure pretty well, Captain Miles ordered the fore-topmast staysail to be hoisted. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
Meanwhile, the commander had stationed lookout men on the crossjack yard and mizzen top, as well as in the weather rigging, to seek for any trace of the poor fellow. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
Close-reefed mizzen and double-reefed storm foresail was the canvas under which the lifeboat that night struggled with the storm, to reach the vessel on the Brake Sand. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
When the great waves broke over the drifting vessel the rush of water must have swept him away, only that he had been wise enough to lash himself to the stump of the mizzen-mast. From Wordnik.com. [Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast] Reference
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