Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical: The clue of a squaresail that is kept hauled out by its sheet when the other clue is hauled up to the yard and furled.
- noun A studdingsail.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.
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- noun nautical One of the
clews or lower corners of acourse or atopsail when the middle part or the rest of thesail isfurled .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As soon as an appreciable amount had collected, another lad swept it up with a small broom and a goosewing and took it to be mixed with salt, yeast, and water in a long wooden trough large enough so that two more apprentices could knead the dough using their feet.
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As soon as an appreciable amount had collected, another lad swept it up with a small broom and a goosewing and took it to be mixed with salt, yeast, and water in a long wooden trough large enough so that two more apprentices could knead the dough using their feet.
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Let you rise the ashes from the sods are on the hearth and redden them with a goosewing, if there is a goosewing to be found.
New Irish Comedies Lady Gregory 1892
ruzuzu commented on the word goosewing
"Nautical: The clue of a squaresail that is kept hauled out by its sheet when the other clue is hauled up to the yard and furled."
--from the Century Dictionary
December 28, 2010