He had picked up some of the names, but he had no idea which sail the mizzen skysail was, nor the fore topgallant. From Wordnik.com. [Wellspring of Chaos]
Instead of using the largest rope on board a ship, the smallest -- skysail bunt-line -- would have been more to the point. From Wordnik.com. [The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison] Reference
As it was, they cut away the remnants of the mizzen-lower-topsail with their sheath-knives, and they loosed the main-skysail out of its bolt-ropes. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XLVI] Reference
The part of the topgallantmast above the topgallant-rigging is called the royal-mast or royal-pole, and the continuation above the royal-rigging, if any, is the skysail-pole. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891] Reference
Carved with a jack-knife was the skysail-yard of a ship. From Wordnik.com. [Hoboes That Pass in the Night] Reference
I set and took in every sail, from a skysail to a trysail. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer] Reference
Puako measured 221 feet on from stem to stern and was rigged as a four masted skysail. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Garuda Indonesia relaunches flights to Europe] Reference
So close were we that I looked to see our far-reeling skysail-yards strike the face of the rock. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference
So close were we that I looked to see our far - reeling skysail-yards strike the face of the rock. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 38] Reference
The Puako measured 221 feet on from stem to stern and was rigged as a four masted skysail Barkentine. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Garuda Indonesia relaunches flights to Europe] Reference
Mr. Pike sent look-outs aloft to every skysail-yard, and the Elsinore slipped along through the smooth sea. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 18] Reference
An American ship, it was plain, and a three-skysail-yarder at that, with a magnificent stature and spread of spars. From Wordnik.com. [Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories] Reference
Nancy's face quite so forlorn as when he obeyed the Maltese Cockney's command and went up to loose the mizzen-skysail. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference
"It is the highest sail we set on the foremast, though larger vessels have a royal above that, then a skysail," I replied. From Wordnik.com. [Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi] Reference
But I have heard that some ships carry still smaller sails, above the skysail; called moon-sails, and skyscrapers, and cloud-rakers. From Wordnik.com. [Redburn. His First Voyage] Reference
As it was, they cut away the remnants of the mizzen-lower-topsail with their sheath - knives, and they loosed the main-skysail out of its bolt-ropes. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference
Her upper spars were on the same scale, tapering away through topmast, topgallant-mast, royal and skysail-masts, until they fined away into slender wands. From Wordnik.com. [Great Pirate Stories] Reference
"I think so," answered Sibylla, compressing her lips, grasping the spokes tightly, and concentrating her whole attention upon the weather leach of the skysail. From Wordnik.com. [The Missing Merchantman] Reference
But I shall not believe in them till I see them; a skysail seems high enough in all conscience; and the idea of any thing higher than that, seems preposterous. From Wordnik.com. [Redburn. His First Voyage] Reference
Her upper spars were on the same scale, tapering away through topmast, topgallant -- mast, royal and skysail -- masts, until they fined away into slender wands. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
The ship, it is true, was heading so obliquely towards him that he could only see the house-flag at her main-skysail - mast-head; but that was quite sufficient. From Wordnik.com. [The Missing Merchantman] Reference
Toward morning, the wind having become light, we crossed our royal and skysail yards, and at daylight we were seen under a cloud of sail, having royal and skysails fore and aft. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference
Toward morning, the wind having become light, we crossed our royal and skysail yards, and at daylight we were seen under a cloud of sail, having royals and skysails fore and aft. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference
Toward morning, the wind having become light, we crossed our royal and skysail yards, and at daylight, we were seen under a cloud of sail, having royals and skysails fore and aft. From Wordnik.com. [Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative] Reference
Williams was a six-footer, a graduate "bucko" now in charge of this big skysail-yarder, and he had resented Murphy's appearance on board with whisky and kind words for his men before he was through with them. From Wordnik.com. [The Grain Ship] Reference
The last touch was put to the vessel by painting the skysail poles; and I was sent up to the fore, with a bucket of white paint and a brush, and touched her off, from the truck to the eyes of the royal rigging. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference
"three-skysail-yarder" among them could compare with the CACHALOT. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
"She was a big, skysail-yarder loading grain at Oakland, and as the skipper had offered me second mate's berth, I went over and sized her up. From Wordnik.com. [The Grain Ship] Reference
That is the main-skysail. From Wordnik.com. [The Missing Merchantman] Reference
The splendid Argus with her skysail set. From Wordnik.com. [Ships] Reference
We must make a tourniquet of my skysail here. ". From Wordnik.com. [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference
"You, Henry, main-skysail-yard, there!" he cried. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference
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