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A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of t…

The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast.

To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc.

The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square y…

A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.

The fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.

A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.

A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction fr…

The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.

One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.

To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yar…

A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore-and-aft sail.

The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.

A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff; -- also called head earing.

A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. See Yard.

Designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. See Sail.

The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast.