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1653 R. Gentilis tr. F. Bacon 125 The fore Mast, the Mizzon Mast..and the Sprit Mast.
1794 D. Steel I. 228 Sailing Lighters or Barges, with a sprit-mainsail, rig with a sprit-yard at the head of the sail.
1894 24 84/2 The sprit rig cannot be said to be pretty.
2012 B. Campbell 212 The navis caudicaria had a mast of a sprit-rig type.