Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A nautical contraction of studdingsail.
Wiktionary
- n. nautical studding sail
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Naut.) A contraction of studding sail.
Examples
“That was a blemish on the franchise, it deserves some renewed interest. stunsail it'll happen. a game and anime then the film. in 3d. they have already done test scenes with 3d cameras here in oz. it will be all thru the omnilab venture dr D, which is currently producing happy feet 2.”
“But the rest of her crew being at last safe aboard, she crowded all sail — stunsail on stunsail — after the missing boat; kindling a fire in her try-pots for a beacon; and every other man aloft on the look-out.”
“For three days they had been boxhauling the yards about to no purpose, and it was sickening work running stunsail-booms out to airs that died in their struggles to reach us.”
“A stunsail boom had been rigged out over the caisson, and rendered extremely fit for pedestrianism by plentiful libations of slush and soft soap.”
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
“A deck cargo of coals was taken in, storm sails bent, extra gripes put on the boats, and anchors lashed; but, as generally turns out in such cases, neither of these preparations were more than ordinary necessary, for save a roll or two in Formosa's tumbling channel, the splitting of a stunsail boom, and the snapping of”
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
“We saw her lower stunsail boom carry away as they took in the sail, and we could see her seamen running to their quarters ready to brace the yards and bring the ship to her new course.”
“We cracked on sail, even setting the topmast stunsail, till it blew away.”
For Love of Country A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution
“Ay, "continued I, as I took a look at him through the glass," there go his stunsail-booms, and there go his stunsails to boot.”
“She was rolling heavily, so much so indeed that we more than once saw her dip her stunsail-boom-ends alternately on the port and starboard sides into the water.”
Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War
“So smart were the "Scourge" in making sail that they were all down on deck again, and every inch of our canvas dragging at us like a cart-horse, before the Frenchman had got his stunsail-booms fairly rigged out.”
Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War
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chained_bear See also studdingsail. Jan 6, 2009
hernesheir (n): (Naut.) a studding sail. A light sail at the side of a principal square sail. Jan 6, 2009