THESAURUS

Bumkin Thesaurus

(nautical) A short outrigger projecting from the side of the aft part of a square-rigged sailing ship, used as an attachment point for a rope (brace) used to set a yard-arm at different angles to a mast so to allow the ship to sail at different angles to the wind.

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Related dictionary entries include boomkin, brace, bobstay, bower, ribband, bracket.

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