At the extreme bow and stern are low masts, which carry trysails and staysails.
The two foremost of these are square-rigged, and all three of them have trysails and staysails.
The sailors used to say, when we drew aft the sheets of those immense trysails of hers, and got the fore-tack close aboard, that she was putting on her seven-league boots.
The reader has seen, that she always put on her seven-league boots, when she had a chance of drawing aft the sheets of those immense trysails of hers.
The most efficient and cheapest steam yacht is one in which the masts are reduced to two signal-poles, on which jib-headed trysails may be set to prevent rolling.
Still some time elapsed before the trysails could be set, and during it the frigate had run considerably to leeward of the corvette.
With a mighty struggle the frigate came to the wind, the main and mizen trysails were sheeted home, the fore-topsail was braced sharp up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trysails" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
