mizzen in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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In the ketch configuration the mainsail is gaff rigged and the mizzen a balanced lug.
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On the yawl and ketch, the mainsail is flown from the forward mast, or mainmast, and the aft mast is the mizzen-mast.
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I agreed with the director that we would go out, but we would not put up the mainsail - we would sail with jib, staysail and mizzen.
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When she sank she still had set about a third of the mizzen sail and some tarpaulin in the shrouds of the mizzen mast.
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The ship is 106ft m long by 25ft m wide, 236 tons displacement, 4 masts (mainmast, foremast, mizzen, sprit), and 6 sails.
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A ship's vertical masts are named, from bow to stern, the fore-mast, the main-mast, the mizzen-mast and the jigger-mast.
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Over time the use of boomkins was extended to the stern of the ship as well to provide an attachment point for a backstay or the sheet of a mizzen.
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Most were configured as yawls (with main mast quite far forward and a small mizzen far aft).
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The purpose of the mizzen sail in a ketch rig, unlike the mizzen on a yawl rig, is to provide drive to the hull.
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The distinguishing characteristic of a ketch is that the forward of the two masts (the mainmast) is larger than the after mast (the mizzen).
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