mizzen in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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Many cruiser designs are cutter rigged meaning they carry two headsails, and many have a second mast (mizzen), in the yawl or ketch configuration.
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At sea, it used to be that the ensign was flown from the mizzen gaff.
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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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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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Increasingly stronger lines followed and a flying fox was established between a large boulder on the shore and the mizzen mast of the stricken ship.
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She has square sails on the fore and main masts, and is gaff rigged on the 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 four masts are the fore mast, main mast, mizzen mast and jigger 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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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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