Word Meanings - AFTER-SAILS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast. Totten.

Related words: (words related to AFTER-SAILS)

• STAYSHIP
  A remora, -- fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.
• MAINMAST
  The principal mast in a ship or other vessel.
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• MIZZENMAST
  The hindmost mast of a three-masted vessel, or of a yawl-rigged vessel.
• STAYSAIL
  Any sail extended on a stay.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• AFTER-SAILS
  The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast. Totten.