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mizen

[ UK /mˈa‍ɪzən/ ]
[ US /ˈmaɪzən/ ]
NOUN
  1. fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast
  2. third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy

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  • On the contrary, she ordered Kennedy to counter-brace the yards with the head yards aback, and then heave the ship to on the port tack, after which everybody but ourselves and the look-outs was to go below, and while she was giving these orders she deftly passed a few more turns of the halyard about herself, so that she could not possibly be blown away unless the mizenmast was blown out of the ship. The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise
  • Clouds of smoke issue from the front, followed by a long tongue of lambent flame that seems to encircle the mizen-mast. The Survivors of the Chancellor
  • Their fleets of ships fought and won battles from the coasts of Kerry to Mizen's wild foreland, to the Mull of Kintyre.
  • Hitherto the ship had been kept in her first position by backing and filling the mizen-topsail, but now she came to, and eventually _came round_: but Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I
  • She was what they call a whale-boat, fitted for the whale-fishery, pointed at both ends, and steered by an oar; she was not very large, but held seven people comfortably, and she was remarkably well fitted with sails and masts, having two lugs and a mizen. The Little Savage
  • Presently, therefore, I sprang into the mizen rigging and made my way aloft to the mizen topmast crosstrees, from which I directed the operation of sending down the royal and topgallant yards, and afterwards took a hand in sending down the topgallant mast, having the satisfaction of finding, when I returned to the deck, that we on the mizenmast had beaten both Briscoe and Kennedy. The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise
  • One of them had the initial P shining between the foremast and mainmast, and G between the main mast and mizenmast. From Lower Deck to Pulpit
  • Mizener, Arthur. The Saddest Story: A Biography of Ford Madox Ford. New York: World Pub. Co. 1971.
  • Oakum, without any farther hesitation, ordered the fellow to be unfettered; at the same time, threatening to make Morgan exchange situations with him for his spite; but the Briton no sooner heard the decision in favour of the madman, than he got up to the mizen-shrouds, crying to Thompson and me to get out of his reach, for we should see him play the devil with a vengeance. The Adventures of Roderick Random
  • So I lay, and wondered why light Came not, and watched the twilight And the glimmer of the skylight, That shot across the deck; And the binnacle pale and steady, And the dull glimpse of the dead-eye, And the sparks in fiery eddy, That whirled from the chimney neck: In our jovial floating prison There was sleep from fore to mizen, And never a star had risen The hazy sky to speck. Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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