The small boat predominating in the area was a modified yawl that had sprits for mainsail and topsail, a jib set up to the stem head, a centerboard, and waterways along the sides.
Sprits were used instead of booms, and there was sometimes a short bowsprit, carrying a jib.
It appears that the clubs shown at the ends of the sprits were very often used on the Carolina sharpies, but they were rarely used on the New Haven tongers except when the craft were rigged for racing.
Instead of booms, sprits were used; these were set up at the heels with tackles to the masts.
Here the Goudsche sprits seller, in his tour up and down the platform, approached the burly Londoner again, and seeing him now in an unexpectedly melting mood, at once proffered his delicacies with noisy persistence.
Some of the sprits were broken, and she was afraid.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sprits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
