Associations to the word «Staysail»

Wiktionary

STAYSAIL, noun. (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.

Dictionary definition

STAYSAIL, noun. A fore-and-aft sail set on a stay (as between two masts).

Wise words

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery