staysail

English

Etymology

From stay +‎ sail.

Noun

staysail (plural staysails)

1. (nautical) 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.

Translations

fore-and-aft rigged sail

• Bulgarian: стаксел m (staksel)
• Catalan: vela d'estai f
• Danish: stangsejl
• Finnish: haruspurje (fi)
• German: Stagsegel n
• Polish: sztagżagiel m, sztaksel (pl) m

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