skysail in English
noun
1
a light sail above the royal.
The ship also carried standing skysail pales and yards, a half poop, and had as her figurehead a toothy dragon's head.
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1. Williams was a six-footer, a graduate "Bucko" now in charge of this big skysail-yarder, and he had resented Murphy's appearance on board with whisky and kind words for his men before he was through with them