mizzen

Speech parts

1. mizzen - Noun

2. mizzen - Adjective

Meaning

Hindmost; nearest the stern; as, the mizzen shrouds, sails, etc.

The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker.

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Examples

Bellerophon and Majestic were the only ships to lose masts: Majestic the main and mizzen and Bellerophon all three. Source: Internet

By 03:00, after more than three hours of close quarter combat, Majestic had lost its main and mizzen masts while Tonnant was a dismasted hulk. Source: Internet

Her guns were reduced from ten cannon to six and a mizzen mast was added to improve her handling, thereby changing her from a brig to a bark (or barque). Source: Internet

The foresail and mainsail were square; the sail on the mizzen was a triangular sail known as a lateen mizzen. Source: Internet

The difference between a ketch and a yawl is that in a ketch, the mizzen mast is forward of the rudderpost (the axis of rotation for the rudder), while a yawl has its mizzen mast behind the rudderpost. Source: Internet

Thus the sail second up the mizzen-mast is the "mizzen topsail", and the third sail up the fore-mast is the "fore topgallant sail". Source: Internet

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