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What is a stunsail?

What is a stunsail? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (nautical) studding sail
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Participants must know the stunsail tack bend and bowline knots before coming to this lesson.
By the time the Mary Jane got home, black Jack could set a stunsail, or furl a royal.
Found the wind slight but for the first time quite fair in a due east, all the sails squared and also the stunsail out.
After about eight hours, the stunsail had to come in as the wind changed and dropped out to less than 4 knots.
Walking the deck with quick, side-lunging strides, Ahab commanded the t'gallant sails and royals to be set, and every stunsail spread.
She was very heavily sparred, with a skysail on the main and stunsail booms aloft.

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