mizzen

A fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast.

A mizzenmast.

Noting the hindmost pair of horns in a five-horned giraffe, a small pair of projections arising from the lambdoid crest, back of the larger frontal horns.

Nautical, the aftermost fore-and-aft sail in a ship, set abaft the mizzenmast, and having its head extended by a gaff; a spanker. See spanker.

Hindmost; nearest the stern

The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker.

mizzenmast

A fore-and-aft sail set on a mizzenmast.

third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy

fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast