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UK
/mˈɪzən/
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NOUN
- fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast
- third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy
How To Use mizzen In A Sentence
- Puff follows puff, and I am glad the mizzen is furled. Chapter 9
- A gust of wind hit them as the mizzensail was unfurled, followed by the mainsail and the foresail.
- An impression of paint, varnish, and carpentry was in the air; a gaudy new burgee fluttered aloft; there seemed to be a new rope or two, especially round the diminutive mizzen-mast, which itself looked altogether new. The Riddle of the Sands
- She was already well down by the stern, and with her stern under, the seas was breaking against her mizzen and washing up the decks. THE MAIN CAGES
- In vain Mahoney strove to get the men to take turns in watching aloft from the mizzenmast for any chance vessel. THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT"
- Meanwhile, the commander had stationed lookout men on the crossjack yard and mizzen top, as well as in the weather rigging, to seek for any trace of the poor fellow. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
- Fastened by chains to the mainmast were a number of grisly staghounds, who now began leaping and barking at me, and by the mizzen a huge puma was cramped in a little iron cage far too small even to give it turning room. The Island of Doctor Moreau
- Of historical interest are the topgallant sails carried on the fore and main masts, the lateen topsails and topgallants on the mizzen and the topsail on the bonaventure mizzen mast at the stern.
- We dropped everything except the main and mizzen, tried in vain to get some speed, then gave up and sheeted them in tight and turned on the engine.
- Tarangini is a ‘Barque’, which means she is square rigged on the fore and mainmasts and fore and aft rigged on the mizzenmast.
