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What are trysails?

What are trysails? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of trysail
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There was also a small square sail which would be hoisted to a yard on the foremast and two trysails to be hoisted on the jigger.
The sailors hoisted the trysails a little way, tightened the sheets, fixed bunts to the sail, and strengthened the tackle and the stop of the lateen yard.
She ran on a 700-horsepower steam engine and had four jury masts on which four trysails and a jib could be set for emergencies.
A reef had been shaken out of the trysails, and the fore-topsail and jib were set.
During their two-week passage, the ships occasionally gained an extra knot or two by hoisting trysails to catch prevailing zephyrs.
We soon made her out to be an hermaphrodite brig, under her close-reefed topsails and trysails.

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