stay-sail

The captain in the meanwhile crowded her with sail; fifteen sails in all, every stay being gratified with a stay-sail, a boat-boom sent aloft for a maintop-gallant yard, and the derrick of

Vailima Letters 2005

Despite the strain put upon her engine, the schooner, bare of canvas (for not even the smallest stay-sail could have withstood the violence of the storm), was drifting with terrific speed towards the menacing precipices, which were only a. few short miles to leeward.

Off on a Comet 2003

As I have already said, the ship under her large low-reefed top-sail and fore stay-sail has been brought ahull, that is to say, she copes directly with the wind, by presenting her broad bows to the sea; and so we go on still drift, drift, continually to the south.

The Survivors of the Chancellor 2003

Leaving the helm, he took from the little cabin a stay-sail, and by the light of the lantern attached it to the lines and hoisted it.

Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton

The stoppers were cut, the engine started ahead, and the fore stay-sail hoisted.

The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner John Wilkinson

Further pursuit was useless; so, taking in the stay-sail, he put the boat about, and again turned his attention to the sufferer.

Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton

But the calm night near the land had so completely filled my berth with annoying insects, that I was obliged to decamp and take refuge in the stay-sail netting, where, wrapped in the cool canvas, I was at rest in quicker time than

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

He then ordered the cable to be cut; and the jib and fore-top-mast stay-sail were hoisted to steer by.

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

Reefed the courses, and furled them; brought to under a foul mizen stay-sail, head to the northward.

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

We shortened sail in the afternoon to lower topsails, jib and stay-sail.

The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922