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Trysail

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; - used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Trysail'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/trysail.html. 1828.