goosewinged

See also: goose-winged

English

Etymology

goosewing + -ed

Adjective

goosewinged (not comparable)

  1. (nautical) Having a goosewing; said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for goosewinged in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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