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sky-sail Naut.
Also skysail.
[sky n.1]
In square-rigged vessels, a light sail set above the royal.
1829Marryat F. Mildmay xv, I set and took in every sail, from a sky-sail to a try-sail. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast x, The sun came out bright, and we set royals, sky⁓sails, and studding-sails. 1891C. Roberts Adrift Amer. 230 She was a full-rigged ship, carrying three skysails.
b. attrib. with mast, pole, yard.
1829Marryat F. Mildmay iii, White hammock-cloths, skysail masts. 1846A. Young Naut. Dict. 284 Either of these poles gets the name of the skysail pole. 1885Daily Telegr. 26 Nov. (Cassell), A length of mast continued above the royal mast, upon which a skysail-yard may be crossed. |