ˈmizen-ˈtopsail Naut.
The sail above the mizen-sail, the sail set on the mizen-topmast. Also attrib.
| 1626 Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 13 The misen top sayle yeard. 1692 Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. i. xiv. 63 Mizan Topsail Lifts. Mizan Topsail Sheets. 1772–84 Cook Voy. (1790) I. 151 It was so tempestuous as to split the main topsail and the fore mizen-top sails. 1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. i. iii. 16 The mizen topsail braces reeve up through the leading blocks..on the main rigging. Ibid., The lower block of the mizen topsail halyard is usually in the mizen tops. |