Assertion: sail | /r/ObjectUse | used of mizen
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text: The sails of a vessel of two masts are, in a snow, similar to those on the fore and main masts of a ship, except the sail called a trysail, used instead of a mizen, which it resembles; it is extended towards the stern, and is fastened by hoops round a small mast, called a trysail mast, fixed near the aft-side of the main-mast in a block of wood in the quarter deck, at the foot, and attached to the main top at the head.