The Nautical Encyclopedia

Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

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Mizzen

Sea Terms

The after fore-and-aft sail; the spanker.

Yawl yacht hove-to under the mizen, topmast housed

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