studdingsail

English

Alternative forms

• studding sail
• studding-sail

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstʌ.dɪŋˌseɪl/, /ˈstʌn.səl/

Noun

studdingsail (plural studdingsails)

1. (nautical) A sail attached to the side of another in a square-rigged ship in order to increase the speed of the vessel.

   Synonym: stun'sl

Translations

sail attached to the side of another

• Bulgarian: лисел m (lisel)
• Finnish: myötäpurje
• Hebrew: מִפְרָשׂ עֵזֶר (he) m (mifras ezer), תּוֹסָף צַד (he) m (tosaf tsad)
• Russian: лисель (ru) (liselʹ)

Further reading

• studding sail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia