英和和英

語源

From after +‎ sail.

名詞

after-sail (plural after-sails)

1. (nautical) One of the sails towards the aft, i.e. on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast.
   • 1994, Ben Finney, Voyage of Rediscovery: A Cultural Odyssey Through Polynesia:

     On this final leg home, these experiments were taken a step further by putting an extra-large sail on the after mast, increasing sail area and changing the balance of the rig in that the after sail was then larger than the forward sail.

参照

• “after-sails”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.