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Webster 1913 Edition

(sprĭt′sāl; among seamen sprĭt′s’l)

Noun.

(Naut.)

(a)

A sail extended by a sprit.

(b)

A sail formerly hung under the bowsprit, from the spritsail yard.

spritsail ‎(plural spritsails)

(nautical) A form of three- or four-sided fore-and-aft sail and its rig, supporting the leech of the sail by means of a sprit.

type of sail