A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.
A nickname for a particular storm trysail used in the northern seas.
When it is abaft the mast, it is intended for the trysail of a snow; but is seldom used in this position, except in those sloops of war which occasionally assume the appearance of snows to deceive the enemy.
I suppose now that we have the trysail on her forward, the captain will be for running for it," observed one who was busy turning in a dead-eye.
I'll have the trysail off her, at any rate," continued the mate.
This was accordingly done, and the trysail was set instead, and the helm lashed a-lee.
The fore-trysail was bent to some of the mast-hoops, and the sheet fastened to a cavel on the port side.
In a few minutes we were in the low, regular swell, and pulled for a light, which, as we came up, we found had been run up to our trysail gaff.
A gaff-headed trysail is better than a jib-headed, but it is more bother to set.
Care should be taken to see that the cleat or ringbolt for the trysail sheet is in such a position as will allow the sail to be properly sheeted, for a trysail when used for riding must set flat, or else it will bang itself to pieces.
Provision also should be made for the trysail sheets, and for body lashings for the crew, and lashings for the boat, even if you have davits.
I have made a passage of twelve days in a schooner, during which time we never had the stops off the mainsail; during part of the time having no after-sail, and the rest of the time a trysail set.
I hadn't any spare time myself, for I was becketing the rest of the trysail to the mast.
Loosen the bunt of the mizzen-trysail and haul at the clew.
Hoping to bring her bow up to the wind, they took in all canvas but the storm trysailon the mizzen, but still the Snark rolled in the trough.
We took the gooseneck off the gaff of the storm trysail and replaced the one that had broken; and went below to supper.
We set a storm trysail on the mizzen, and took in the mainsail.
Thus, the only bit of canvas left on her was the storm trysail on the mizzen.
Now, gentle reader, what would you do if you were on a small boat, rolling in the trough of the sea, a trysail on that small boat's stern that was unable to swing the bow up into the wind?
But the first lieutenant and Trysail were no novices in their duty, and, in less than a minute, they had secured the vessel steadily at her anchors.
He saw that the moment for serious action was not distant; and, bidding Trysail keep the vessel on her course, he descended to the quarter-deck.
The stranger had, as Trysail perceived, suddenly worn round on his heel, and laid his head to the northward.
The Boulognese mariner was foremost among his countrymen, and at that desperate emergency Ludlow and Trysail fought in the common herd.
Trysail had ventured to remonstrate, while there was a possibility of avoiding the danger; but, like his commander, he now saw that all depended on their own coolness and care.
Once Ludlow and Trysail thought the cheers of seamen came on the thick air of the night; and once, again, either fancy or their senses told them they heard the menacing hail which commanded the outlaws to submit.
Trysail watched the countenance of his young commander, as he examined the chase with the aid of the instrument; and he thought he read strong discontent in his features, when the other laid it aside.
Trysail had just reported the anchors ready, when the ship swept up abreast of the cove, where vessels often seek an anchorage, to await favorable moments for entering the Gate.
I make no complaints, and am a happy man at sea, and I piously hope Mrs. Trysail knows how to submit to her duty at home.
Trysail stood near the capstan, coolly giving the orders which have been related, and gazing upward with an interest so absorbed as to render him unconscious of all that passed around his person.
Trysail was directed to keep the ship stationary, and after giving to his subordinate private instructions of importance in the event of treachery, Ludlow went into the boat in person.
Furled the mainsail, and set the reefed trysail instead; and the wind still increasing, before morning we hauled up and furled the foresail.
Just before this aggregate of days elapses, I haul aft my trysail sheets, and stretch over to the Cape of Good Hope.
A whistle or two from the boatswain and his mates, and the trysail sheets are drawn aft, and the Alabama has on those seven-league boots which the reader has seen her draw on so often before.
The Emerald could do nothing with us at this game, much to the chagrin of her noble owner; so she was obliged to in trysail and set her mainsail, whilst we hove-to and waited for her.
How the trysail went up, it is impossible for me to say; we pulled like demons, and it seemed to rise instantaneously into its place, fully set.
The mainsail was stowed and the cover put on, the foresail hauled down and unbent, and the trysail bent, reefed, and stowed, to be set or not as circumstances might require.
I hauled in the weather fore-sheet until it was just in the wake of the mast, and our little barkie was then left to take care of herself whilst we got the trysail bent and set.
It was blowing a strong breeze from the south-west, as I have already said, and we took down a reef in our mainsail, whilst the Emerald started under trysail and jib, keeping her mainsail stowed so as not to run away from us.
An hour later, the breeze freshened upon us so fiercely that we saw it would be dangerous to trifle with it any longer; so we hauled down our mainsail and stowed it; and bent and set the trysail in its place, single-reefed.
I kept the tiller jammed hard over, and eased away the trysail sheet, intending to wear; when the ship took another sheer directly towards us.
Commodore Trysail alone left the carriage, and as Mr. Foster opened his door, entered without waiting for any ceremony.
Two weeks from the day on which Commodore Trysail gave the appointment, Sam and his beautiful schooner were ready for the ocean.
Commodore Trysail was one of those specimens of humanity with which we occasionally meet, where a rough exterior and a blunt manner conceal a warm and tender heart.
It was about the middle of the afternoon when the equipage of Commodore Trysail drove up.
The Commodore now took Mr. Rutherford aside, and making some further arrangements for the accomplishment of his plan, the latter gentleman departed, and Commodore Trysail ordered his carriage to be in immediate readiness.
The event which Commodore Trysail had predicted came to pass, although somewhat sooner than either he or many other shrewd calculators had anticipated.
Men whose faces showed intent in the streaming radiance floundered towards the mast, and as the Champlain came round the trysail went up.
Then she swung further yet, and as the big mainboom came down the little three-cornered trysail went thrashing up the mast.
At last they hove her in, and there was a curious silence when Jordan moved a pace or two forward and glanced at the trysail with a little smile in his face.
We've clear water before us now, and we'll have the trysail on her," he said.
He said nothing to Stickine, who now held the wheel, but Appleby saw him bending over it, and there was a banging and thrashing of canvas as the staysail went up and the trysail came down.
In a few minutes the long boom was lying on the quarter and the Champlain jogging slowly to windward with the trysail only on her mainmast.
In five minutes the trysailwas below, and though it was blowing tolerably fresh the Champlain was thrashing out to windward under all her lower sail.
The strip of sail above her bowsprit and the trysail aft just sufficed to hold her stationary, and it was with little more than a spray wisp at her bows she bobbed in a curious cork-like fashion to the sea.
Then 'twould be sailing nice and quiet under trysail would content ye?
A silent man stood almost motionless at the wheel, for the Champlain was lying to under her trysail and jib, making no way through the water, but bobbing with her bow to the sea.
She's snug for a while, but we'll have the trysail handy," said Jordan quietly.
The rest of the day passed slowly with Appleby and Niven, but it came to an end at last, and when dusk was closing in the Champlain, under trysail and jib only, crept in towards the land.
The trysail that had been partially hoisted was now set properly, and trusting to the goodness of our cause, guaranteed by the tried worthiness of our craft, we stretched away from the island, and stood for Bergen.
As soon as I had stowed the trysail on the hatchway grating, I looked about to see what else I could put on the skylight, which they might also attempt to force up.
In a few minutes we were in the low, regular swell, and pulled for a light, which, as we neared it, we found had been run up to our trysail gaff.
Her sunken decks and patched-up jury rig with the trysail set from the after-stay gave her an uncanny look, while her masts and spars with the set canvas seemed as black as ink against the light sky beyond.
We had drifted along with the topsail and two staysails drawing from the main, and a sort of trysail set from a preventer-stay leading aft.
When we went by the Nannie O her crew were getting the trysail out of the hold, and they finished the race with that, and made good going of it, as we saw afterward.
Indeed, a trysail that day would have been sail enough for almost any men but these.
If the craft be such as I am imagining her to be, she should be able to ride out almost any weather with drogue out, and possibly a bit of trysail or mizzen set, sheeted well amidships.
There should, of course, be a good supply of sails on board, not omitting a stout storm trysail and a handy spinnaker.
A jib-headed trysail was set on the mainsail to ease the steering gear.
The mainsail was taken off her and trysail set, the topmast housed and bowsprit reefed in, the second jib shifted for a spitfire, and the foresail double-reefed.
Not daring to attempt this now, we had to make the best of the position, and run on under trysail and storm jib.
The trysail had no boom, and was ever violently gybing, while so low was the body of the sail that it lost the wind when we were in the trough of those great seas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trysail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
