Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small sail hoisted against the foremast forward of the galley-funnel when a ship rides head to wind, to give the smoke of the galley an opportunity to rise, and to prevent it from being blown aft to the quarter-deck.
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Examples
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At a distance, when our smoke-sail yard was _manned_; we looked like a parcel of larks spitted, with one great goose in the midst of us.
Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820
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He used to rig the smoke-sail some twelve feet high, across the mizzen-mast, and make the young gentlemen just caught, and the boys of the ship, lay out upon it, in order that they might practice furling after a safe method.
Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820
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Now this delicacy was quite at variance with Mr Farmer's ideas; so, in order to overcome it by the gentlest means in the world, Reuben had the option given him of being flogged, or of laying out on the smoke-sail yard, just to begin with, and to get into the way of it.
Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820
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