The bowsprit formerly had one yard, called the spritsail yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence] Reference

Set our spritsail, topsail & squaresail, with a fair breeze of wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference

When day broke they succeeded in wearing the ship with a remnant of the spritsail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson]

Berry was supported from the spritsail-yard, which locked in the SAN NICOLAS's main rigging.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson]

At this instant the lad on the spritsail-yard sung out quick and suddenly, "A shark, a shark!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832] Reference

The spritsail flapped emptily and the boat righted to an even keel, causing the two men swiftly to change position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 19] Reference

The spritsail filled with the wind, suddenly, careening the frail open craft till it seemed it would surely capsize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 19] Reference

The best quartermaster was sent to the wheel, with orders to keep the chase directly over the weather end of the spritsail yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference

Wherever the spray struck, it turned instantly to frost, and the dipping boom of the spritsail was quickly fringed with icicles.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN] Reference

Next the spritsail-yard appeared in view, but covered with people, among whom he durst not take a place without requesting permission, which they cheerfully granted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference

The deserted boat was in the trough of the sea, rolling drunkenly across each comber, its loose spritsail out at right angles to it and fluttering and flapping in the wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 25] Reference

I concluded to take a boat, and procured of Frank Stanley a little row-boat, with a spritsail for running before the wind; for I intended to choose my own time for crossing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference

To make sail, a red flag on the spritsail, topmast shrouds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX.] Reference

"Like to spritsail-yard him, sir?" said Strake, touching his hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea] Reference

Our only squaresail was a spritsail at the main-yard to serve as a mainsail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurricane Hurry] Reference

The spritsail would then be furled, and the spritsail-yard brought alongship.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.] Reference

Out of this well forked the bowsprit, with the spritsail yard braced fore and aft.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frozen Pirate] Reference

Forward the ships had bowsprits, on which each set a spritsail, from a spritsail yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.] Reference

"I sat up most of last night with the spritsail sheet in my hand, and I'm going to sleep.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Vane of the Timberlands] Reference

At this instant the lad on the spritsail -- yard sung out quick and suddenly, "A shark, a shark!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference

One of the Italians took a turn with it over a cleat, while I hastened to lower our big spritsail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Fish Patrol] Reference

At this time the ship had been pitching her spritsail-yard under water, and it blew a little hurricane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast] Reference

The people rushed from the guns, and crowded out upon the bowsprit, the spritsail-yard, and the knightheads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

"What's spritsail-yarding?" said Syd, who was now trying to squeeze some of the water out of his drenched uniform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea] Reference

The exchange was made, and the salmon boat got up its spritsail and headed down the bay toward the marshes off San Rafael.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Fish Patrol] Reference

Oh, heaven! how different from the dull ambling of the morning, the sluggish pitching and rolling to the weak pulling of the spritsail!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frozen Pirate] Reference

Finding that the ship continued to steer herself very well, and the better for the spritsail, I thought I would get the body of the old.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frozen Pirate] Reference

When the Frenchmen discovered this, they once more rehoisted their colours, and, setting a spritsail on the bowsprit, endeavoured to make off.    From Wordnik.com.  [True Blue] Reference

The bowsprit staved very much, and was to appearance almost as a fourth mast: the more so, as she carried a square spritsail and sprit-topsail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Phantom Ship] Reference

The "Captain" fetched alongside of the "San Nicolas," her bow touching the lee (starboard) quarter of the Spanish vessel, her spritsail yard hooking in the other's mizzen shrouds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 (of 2) The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain] Reference