Studdingsails is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STUDDINGSAILS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• STUDDINGSAIL, an additional sail set at the outer edges of a square sail when the wind is light and abaft the beam, also STUNSAIL
• (on a square-rigged sailing ship) an additional sail set at the end of a yard in light winds.

Words related to STUDDINGSAILS

studdingsail15

How to use STUDDINGSAILS in a sentence

• A wind that justifies studding-sails may change, without premonition, to a gale that will make ribbons of top-sails and of storm-sails.
• Some time before the night set in, both frigates and the sloop were under maintopgallant-sails only, with topmast and lower studding-sails on each side.
• As a matter of course, the preparations with the studding-sails were suspended.
• It blew rather fresh at the instant, and the Dawn began to plunge through the seas at a famous rate as soon as she felt the drag of the studding-sails.
• We had top-mast and lower studding-sails, and not a tack or sheet had been touched when we got within a quarter of a mile of the frigate.
• We began to haul down our studding-sails, merchant-fashion, and were fairly alongside of the frigate before even this preliminary step to heaving-to was effected.
• The English ship caught sight of the boat, when we were about a mile on his lee quarter, with lower and top-mast studding-sails set, going quite eight knots, on a due east course.
• While this was doing, down came all the studding-sails together, much as a bird shuts its wings.
• A good-sized ship was made astern, coming up channel before the wind, and carrying top-mast studding-sails.
• In a voice that still admonished his inferiors of the danger of disobedience he commanded several broad sheets of studding-sails to be set, in quick succession.
• Left to his own discretion, Hood pushed for the Mona Passage, between Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo, carrying studding-sails below and aloft in his haste.
• Carrying royals and studding-sails, the Chancellor during the last four-and-twenty hours has held a steady course.
• At length a stiff breeze came from the south-west, and we laid our course for the mouth of the British Channel under studding-sails.
• The stranger had borne down with studding-sails, until within three miles of the Indiamen, when she rounded to.
• We had the main-top-gallant-sail set, without studding-sails, for we began to think of the deep bight in which Genoa is stowed, and the sun had dipped more than an hour.

Similar words containing STUDDINGSAIL without suffix s

studdingsail15

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. We do not cooperate with the owners of this trademark. All trademark rights are owned by their owners and are not relevant to the web site "scrabble-word.com". This site is intended for entertainment and training. We try to make a useful tool for all fans of SCRABBLE. "Scrabble Word" is the best method to improve your skills in the game.