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Sprit

noun
1.
A light spar that crosses a fore-and-aft sail diagonally.



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"Sprit" Quotes from Famous Books



... our return voyage. Raimundo cut two slender poles, one for a mast and the other for a sprit— to these he rigged a sail we had brought in the boat, for we were to return by the open river, and expected a good wind to carry us to Caripi. As soon as we got out of the channel we began to feel the wind—the sea-breeze, which here makes a clean ...
— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates



Words linked to "Sprit" :   spar, spritsail



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