Trysail

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Trysail \Try"sail\, n. (Naut.)
     A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower
     mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft
     a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also
     {spencer}. --Totten.
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