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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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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