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Studding sail
Description
A studding sail is an extra sail hoisted alongside a square-rigged sail. It is named from the mast that it is set alongside: top-gallant studding sail, topmast studding sail and lower studding sail.
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studding sail
studding sail Also 6 Sc. stoytene-, 7 studin-, 8 stutting-sail; and see stunsail. [Of obscure etymology. The earliest recorded form seems to point to adoption from MDu. or MLG. stôtinge, but this word is known only as n. of action from stôten to push, thrust, collide. Cf. however Du. stootlap sail-l...
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Stun Sail Boom River
Etymology
The river was named after the boom of the stuns'l, sailors slang for studding sail located on the outside of the square rigging of a sailing ship, after Robert Fisher and others found a stun'sail boom at its mouth on 7 November 1836.
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stud-sail
ˈstud-sail [Of obscure etymology: see studding-sail.] = studding-sail.18.. Falconer's Shipwr. i. 732 (1836) Now swelling stud⁓sails [1762, 1789, 1792 stu'n-sails] on each side extend. 1851 B'ham. & Midl. Gardeners' Mag. Oct. 192 With only a flying stud sail of green boughs at the end of it. 1857 Mer...
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Brig
The wings are named after the sails to which they are fastened, i.e. the main studding sails, main top studding sails, and the main top gallant studding The fore mast holds a fore sail, fore top sail, fore top gallant sail, and fore royal.
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stunsail
stunsail Naut. (ˈstʌns(ə)l) Also stu'n-sail, stun'-sail, stunsel. Contraction, representing the ordinary pronunciation, of studding-sail.1762 Falconer Shipwr. i. 225 Now swelling stu'n-sails on each side extend. 1863 Reade Hard Cash I. xi. 267 All hands set stunsels 'low and aloft! 1913 M. Roberts S...
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Rig (sailing)
In light breezes, the working square sails would be supplemented by studding sails ("stuns'l") out on the ends of the yardarms. These were called as a regular sail, with the addition of "studding". For example, the main top studding sail.
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outhaul
outhaul Naut. (ˈaʊthɔːl) [out- 7.] ‘A rope used for hauling out the tack of a jib lower studding-sail, or the clue of a boom-sail’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867): opposed to inhaul.1840 R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxxiii. 126 We were nearly an hour setting the sail; carried away the outhaul in doing it. 18...
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Extra (sailing)
In sailing, an extra is a sail that is not part of the working sail plan.
The most common extra is the spinnaker. Other extras include studding sails, the modern spanker (or tallboy), and some staysails and topsails.
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James Baines (clipper)
In detail:
16 square sails (5-5-5, later 5-6-5)
6 staysails
4 jibs
1 fore and aft sail - the spanker and
16 studding sails
All three masts (with lower, top, and topgallant masts including royal and skysail masts) had a course sail, a topsail, a topgallant sail, a royal sail, and a skysail
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depressing
▪ I. depressing, vbl. n. (dɪˈprɛsɪŋ) [f. depress v. + -ing1.] The action of the verb depress; depression.1641 Wilkins Math. Magick i. iv. (1648) 25 In the depressing, or elevating..of any weight. 1660 Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. ix. 69 Upon the quick depressing of the Sucker.▪ II. deˈpressing, ppl. a...
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Full-rigged ship
Topgallant sail, or
Lower topgallant sail, if fitted.
Upper topgallant sail, if fitted.
Royal sail, if fitted.
Skysail, if fitted. In light winds studding sails (pronounced "stunsls") may be carried on either side of any or all of the square rigged sails except royals and skysails.
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downhaul
ˈdownhaul Naut. (-hɔːl) [f. down adv. + haul v.] (See quot. 1867.)1669 Sturmy Mariner's Mag. 17 All down upon your doone hall. 1727 Swift Gulliver ii. i, We belayed the fore downhaul. 1840 R. H. Dana Bef. Mast v. 11, I..sprang forward, threw the downhaul over the windlass. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-b...
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