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What are trysails?

What are trysails? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of trysail
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During their two-week passage, the ships occasionally gained an extra knot or two by hoisting trysails to catch prevailing zephyrs.
There was also a small square sail which would be hoisted to a yard on the foremast and two trysails to be hoisted on the jigger.
She ran on a 700-horsepower steam engine and had four jury masts on which four trysails and a jib could be set for emergencies.
We soon made her out to be an hermaphrodite brig, under her close-reefed topsails and trysails.
The sailors hoisted the trysails a little way, tightened the sheets, fixed bunts to the sail, and strengthened the tackle and the stop of the lateen yard.
A reef had been shaken out of the trysails, and the fore-topsail and jib were set.

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