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- noun Plural form of
stunsail .
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Examples
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He became violently agitated and barked a confusion of orders at the men -- In stunsails!
Laurence Hughes: Ahab at Starbucks Laurence Hughes 2011
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He became violently agitated and barked a confusion of orders at the men -- In stunsails!
Laurence Hughes: Ahab at Starbucks Laurence Hughes 2011
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He became violently agitated and barked a confusion of orders at the men -- In stunsails!
Laurence Hughes: Ahab at Starbucks Laurence Hughes 2011
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He became violently agitated and barked a confusion of orders at the men -- In stunsails!
Laurence Hughes: Ahab at Starbucks Laurence Hughes 2011
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Down royals and top-gallant stunsails, Mr. Starbuck.
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Accordingly, the boats now made for her, and were soon swayed up to their cranes — the two parts of the wrecked boat having been previously secured by her — and then hoisting everything to her side, and stacking her canvas high up, and sideways outstretching it with stunsails, like the double-jointed wings of an albatross; the Pequod bore down in the leeward wake of
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Humbugging about with stunsails to the cat's-paws little pleased the men, especially at night.
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They were in a large barque, as they could see, under full sail, with royals, staysails, stunsails, and everything that could draw, set; but they had not much time given them for observation.
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"Bearing down fast, under stunsails," he reported.
Jim Davis John Masefield 1922
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She seemed to be about twelve hundred tons 'register, with no skysails, stunsails, or other kites to make work for her crew, an easy ship, as far as wind and weather were concerned.
The Grain Ship Morgan Robertson 1888
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