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Goosewing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

goos'wing. In seamen's language, a sail set on a boom on the lee side of a ship; also, the clues or lower corners of a ship's main-sail or fore-sail, when the middle part is furled.

Goosewing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.

Goosewinged [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having a "goosewing."

2. Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.