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- noun Plural form of
skysail .
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Examples
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"Better get the skysails and royals off," Margaret said in my ear.
CHAPTER XLVI 2010
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"While you're about it, get in the skysails and royals!"
CHAPTER XLVI 2010
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Fifteen minutes afterward you were setting the skysails. '
MAKE WESTING 2010
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Elsinore, by the wind, under an Alpine range of canvas, every sail set from skysails to try-sails and spanker, slipping across the surface of a mild trade-wind sea, and no hand at the wheel to guide her.
CHAPTER XVIII 2010
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The skysails were already furled; men were furling the royals; and the topgallant-yards were running down while clewlines and buntlines bagged the canvas.
CHAPTER XXXIII 2010
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More than that, as the gale eased on the morning of the third day, they actually went aloft, set top-gallant-sails, royals, and skysails, and trimmed the yards to the quartering breeze.
CHAPTER XLVI 2010
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The man at the wheel altered the course, while both watches sprang aloft to shake out royals and skysails.
CHAPTER XXXIII 2010
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As one watched a clipper ship grow from the horizon, he observed the sails rising row by row: first the skysails, high atop the masts, then the royals, topgallants, wide topsails, and closest to deck, the mainsails, or courses.
A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003
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The skysails had already hinted strongly in the same direction.
Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958
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All sail set, even skysails, and stu'ns'ls to the royals.
Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958
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