sprit-sail

In calms they are paddled, and shoot over the water with great rapidity, but whenever there is any breeze a small sprit-sail is used.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Titiaca's village in a catamaran rigged with a sprit-sail.

The Belted Seas Arthur Willis Colton

Indeed, during the four days immediately preceding this catastrophe, it blew such a strong gale, and such a heavy sea followed the Ramillies, that it was always necessary to keep her with the wind upon her quarter, with seldom more than the sprit-sail hoisted upon her fore-mast, and at times with no sail at all, in which state she would run at the rate of six miles an hour.

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. Anonymous

A Spanish three-decker now crossed our bows and gave us a raking broadside which knocked away the fore and main top-masts, the main and fore-yards with the jib-boom and sprit-sail yard, part of the head, and killed and wounded twenty-two of the men.

A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

Far off a man was sailing with a little brown sprit-sail.

The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911

At what time it fortuned that a ship of Spain, of 60 tons, laden with Canary wines and other commodities, which had but lately come into the bay; and had not yet furled her sprit-sail (espying our four pinnaces, being an extraordinary number, and those rowing with many oars) sent away her gundeloe [gondola?] towards the town, to give warning.

Sir Francis Drake Revived. Paras. 1-99 1909

"Strikes me we ought to ship a mast so's we could rig a sprit-sail in case the old horse should give out, Cap'n."

Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Sewell Ford 1907

Barnacles tightened the traces, the sprit-sail did its share, and in an amazingly short time the odd vehicle was spinning toward Sculpin Point at a ten-knot gait.

Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Sewell Ford 1907

Nearing an island, some of the men went ashore and cut a mast and sprit-sail boom for each canoe.

The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Arthur Henry Howard Heming 1905

A.M. Got on board a spar for sprit-sail yard: carpenter making new one.

The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant Ida Lee 1904