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RING-TAIL
RING-TAIL, a small triangular sail, extended on a little mast, which is occasionally erected for that purpose on the top of a ship's stern. The lower part of this sail is stretched out by a boom, which projects from the stern horizontally. This sail is only used in light and favourable winds, particularly in the Atlantic ocean.RING-TAIL is also a name given to a sort of scudding-sail, hoisted beyond the after-edge or skirt of those main-sails which are extended by a boom and gaff; as in all sloops, brigs, and schooners: this ring-tail is accordingly of the same depth with that part of the main-sail upon which it borders. See SAIL.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 245, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1079.html