shoulder-of-mutton sail

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English

Etymology

From its shape.

Noun

shoulder-of-mutton sail (plural shoulder-of-mutton sails)

  1. (nautical) A triangular sail carried on a boat's mast.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “shoulder-of-mutton sail”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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