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lifting sail

noun

Nautical.
  1. a sail that when filled tends to raise the hull of a ship or boat ( driving sail ).
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of lifting sail1

First recorded in 1880–85
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She looked to leeward under the lifting sail and on her bow, well out in the open off Stave Island, she could make out the lines of an overturned canoe and two figures in the water.

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