A four-cornered sail supported by a yard attached to a mast.
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They had a good stretch of river ahead to themselves, only a few fishing canoes in sight, and Telli soon gave in to temptation and lowered the spar at the bottom of the square sail another yard.
When furled, the square sails vanished inside the booms, although the 15 fore-and-aft sails were handled like any modern sail-boat's roller-furling jib.
The argument is that a three-masted ship had three yards on each mast for the square sails, making nine in all.
At first when sails triumphed over oars, a large square sail was rigged on the mainmast while two smaller sails fore and aft gave the ship maneuverability.
Such ships were robustly built with stout planking secured to massive framing timbers, with a single mast possibly rigged with a square sail.
Definition of square sail in US English:
square sail
nounskwer sāl
A four-cornered sail supported by a yard attached to a mast.
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Example sentencesExamples
They had a good stretch of river ahead to themselves, only a few fishing canoes in sight, and Telli soon gave in to temptation and lowered the spar at the bottom of the square sail another yard.
Such ships were robustly built with stout planking secured to massive framing timbers, with a single mast possibly rigged with a square sail.
The argument is that a three-masted ship had three yards on each mast for the square sails, making nine in all.
When furled, the square sails vanished inside the booms, although the 15 fore-and-aft sails were handled like any modern sail-boat's roller-furling jib.
At first when sails triumphed over oars, a large square sail was rigged on the mainmast while two smaller sails fore and aft gave the ship maneuverability.