'Trysail' definitions:

Definition of 'Trysail'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]