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Staysail

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Noun
  1. 1
    A fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff can be affixed to a stay running forward from a mast to the deck, the bowsprit or to another mast.
  2. 2
    a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay (as between two masts) wordnet

Etymology

From stay + sail.

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