Defn: A kind of ketch very common in the Levant, which has neither topgallant sail nor mizzen topsail.
The cabin of the Northumberland was a cheerful enough place, pierced by the polished shaft of the mizzen mast, carpeted with an Axminster carpet, and garnished with mirrors let into the white pine panelling.
Suddenly Stannistreet, who had been standing talking to Lestrange, climbed a few feet up the mizzen ratlins, and shaded his eyes.
The spanker was set, with the mizzen and maintopmast staysail, and the helm put down to bring her round; but there was no racing of the cliffs to port.
She stumbled a little in her stride; the fresh sails flapped; but there was no getting her on the other tack, though the upper mizzen topsail was pressed into the job.
The ship now gradually righted, and with the aid of a storm-sail in her mizzen rigging, for her top-sail had been torn into shreds, her head was got to the wind.
The fore, main, and mizzen top-gallant masts had gone in rapid succession, and the swaying mass of wreck was threatening the destruction of the ship.
They mounted the fore, main, and mizzen rigging, and working with all their strength and skill soon had the swaying wreck cut away, and the ship relieved of her strain.
The boatswain entered the little house, and returned with the flag which he bent on to the halliards rove at the mizzen topmast-head.
Look at that starry jewel yonder," and she turned up her face to the cross that hung above the mizzen topmast-head, gleaming very gloriously in a lake of deep indigo betwixt two clouds.
As we swung up into the mizzen rigging, Newman shouted words in my ear that I knew the wind carried to the captain.
A moment later, as the fresh breeze carried away the smoke to the north-east, the crew set up a lively cheer, for the mizzen mast of the chase toppled over into the water, and the pilot house seemed to have been knocked into splinters.
Bring up the large easy-chair at my desk, and place it abreast of the mizzen mast," added the commander.
Captain Rombold stood but a short distance from the stump of the mizzen mast with a cutlass in his hand.
Captain Rombold was standing abreast of the stump of his mizzen mast observing the whole affair, and he had a better opportunity to observe it than any other person on the deck of either ship.
The action had certainly gone against her; but she gave no indication that she was ready to surrender for the Confederate flag, which had been hoisted at the mainmast head when the mizzen was shot away, still floated in the breeze.
The prize had lost her mizzen mast, her steering gear had been knocked to pieces both forward and aft, she had been riddled in a dozen places, and shot-holes in the hull had been hastily plugged during the action.
At this moment Mr. Passford was in the mizzen rigging.
The cloud of smoke concealed all of the deck forward of the mizzen mast, and Christy could not see what effect had been produced by the charge of grape, or whatever it was.
Captain Rombold lay upon the deck, propped up against the mizzen mast.
The first lieutenant had seen from his position in the mizzen rigging the trap which had been set for the crew of the Bellevite.
You can judge of my consternation when I saw Mr. Passford leap into the mizzen rigging with the agility of a cat, and especially when the order to board my ship was withheld.
This was followed instantly by a crash, as the mizzen mast snapped off, two feet above the deck.
The mizzenwas shaken out and, as soon as the sheets were hauled aft, the helm was put down.
Try one on the mizzen staysail--the smallest you've got.
These, on being scrutinised through the glass by the first mate, were declared to be the now familiar proa and her consort, a fact which I corroborated with my naked eye from the mizzen cross-trees whither I at once ascended.
On the present occasion he ran us a rare race with the main-royal yard, we getting the mizzen spar below but a second or two in advance of his party.
I from the mizzen cross-trees, where I had gone to look out, Tom Jerrold being sent up aloft forward for the same purpose.
Before the flags had got halfway to the mizzen peak, they were pulled down and hoisted properly, and the men of the 'Shannon' ceased their fire.
The second division of the Marines now rushed forward, and while one party kept down the Americans who were ascending the main hatchway, another party answered a destructive fire which still continued from the main and mizzen tops.
The 'Shannon' had a Union Jack at the fore, an old rusty blue ensign at the mizzen peak, and two other flags rolled up, ready to be spread if either of these should be shot away.
These were made fast on deck to the stump of the mizzen mast, and their ends brought to the capstan through snatch blocks.
The running gear was not new, and Trunnell was a careful mate, so the ship was down to her upper topsails on the fore and mizzen and a main t'gallant on mainmast, the courses fore and after being clewed up and left hanging.
When I started aft again, I found that Trunnell had managed to get a tarpaulin into the mizzen rigging, and by the aid of this bit of canvas the Pirate had at last headed the sea within five points.
The third mate came on deck and stood near the lee mizzen rigging, looking forward at the foam swirling from the bends and drifting aft alongside at a rapid rate.
Aft, a trysail, set on the spanker boom, helped the tarpaulin in the mizzen to bring her head to the sea.
I was much taken with him owing to what had happened, and I looked down at him as he ate, for I could see him very well as I stood near the mizzen on the port side of the cabin skylight.
The stump of a foremast showed forward and a stout maintopsail strained away amidships, while aft, where the mizzen should have been, there was nothing showing above her deck.
Trunnell went to the break of the poop and called out for the watch to clew down the fore and mizzen skysails.
The mizzen topsail had disappeared, as though made of vapor, leaving the mizzen clear.
Jenks climbed up the mizzen channels, which were now no higher than the boat's bow, and made the painter fast on deck without remark.
Her face was ruddy even in the moonlight, but she carried herself with a firm step to the mizzen channels.
Soon a little sailorly and seaman-like fellow named Ford, whose interest in the strange ship was marked, came from the group near the mizzen and asked if he should get the signal halyards ready.
In a moment a sailor had flung us a line, and we were towing along at the mizzen channels, with the men climbing aboard as fast as they could.
She insisted that she could grab the mizzenchannel plates and climb aboard.
Then I rushed for the mizzen rigging, yelling for the men to clew down the t'gallantsail and let the topsail halyards go by the run.
Some men aft here to the mizzen and show the foot of it as she rounds!
Upon each side of the Pequod's quarter deck, and pretty close to the mizzen shrouds, there was an auger hole, bored about half an inch or so, into the plank.
Ere forgetfulness altogether came over me, I had noticed that the seamen at the main and mizzen mast-heads were already drowsy.
The sailors at the fore and mizzen had come down; the line tubs were fixed in their places; the cranes were thrust out; the mainyard was backed, and the three boats swung over the sea like three samphire baskets over high cliffs.
The shot fell short of us; we opened our main-deck guns and brought down her mizzen top-mast.
In the middle of November the "Agamemnon" had to go to Leghorn for extensive repairs, and remained there, shifting her main and mizzen masts, until the 21st of December.
I then took the telescope, and, setting it steady in the mizzen rigging, slowly and carefully swept the weather horizon, and afterwards transferred the glass to leeward, but no ship was to be seen.
Working from the deck upward, the clipper we show is flying her mizzen staysail, her mizzen topmast staysail, her mizzen topgallantmast staysail and her mizzen royal staysail; and she has a similar series off the main.
In the cutter the mizzen is dispensed with, and in a sloop of the old rig the difference between the two is that the cutter has two headsails, the jib and foresail, while the sloop has but one, the foresail.
If themizzen be stepped abaft the stern-post the vessel becomes a "dandy" or "yawl.
If the aftermost mast is not square-rigged, the order is foremast, main, mizzen and jigger.
The girl had never heard of Cape Hay, but shielding herself by the ice-coated shrouds of the mizzen rigging, she strained her eyes toward the south and east.
The fore, main, and mizzen sails filled and billowed and the foretopmast staysail and jib held the following wind.
Stirling glanced aft to where the Russian at the wheel was taking his orders from the leader who had sprung upon the weather rail and was holding to the mizzen shrouds.
He tested the direction of the wind by holding his finger aloft, and stared at the telltale which draped from the mizzen top.
While Daughtry was passing a turn of rope around the Ancient Mariner and the mizzen rigging and giving the turn to him to hold, Captain Doane crawled gasping to the rail and dragged himself erect.
The Mary Turner was struck aft of the mizzen shrouds.
This act was necessitated by the loss of the fore top-mast, as the pressure of the wind upon the mizzen would have brought her head up, and laid her broadside to the gale.
These were set to work to chop through the shrouds of the mizzen and, in a minute later, the mast snapped asunder on the level of the deck, and went over the side with a crash, carrying away several feet of the bulwark.
We even took in the trysail, hoisted the full mizzen in its place, and hauled the full mizzen down flat, and the Snark wallowed in the trough and dragged the sea-anchor behind her.
We rigged lines on either side between the main andmizzen riggings.
She ran with a sea-anchor fast for'ard and a full mizzenflattened down aft.
Puff follows puff, and I am glad the mizzen is furled.
The carpenter, seeing this, clapped some hands on to the fore and mizzen braces, and filled the fore and after sails.
It was the strong rope, by means of which one of the mizzen yards was braced, and was rove through a block attached to the outward end of the yard.
Many times the caravel Niña had to wait for the Pinta, because she sailed badly when on a bowline the mizzen being of little use owing to the weakness of the mast.
Here he obtained a new mast and yard for the mizzen of the caravel Niña.
The captain ran up the mizzen rigging, and scanned the raft, now nearly abeam.
The captain went up a few ratlines in the mizzen rigging, and looked to windward, laughing all the time: but, all of a sudden, there was a great change in his manner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mizzen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: jib; mast; sail; spar
