For playground, field, and forest; the outdoor handy book (1900)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 179
Fig. 106.—Helm—The Wheel. The masts are the upright poles or sticks that hold thesails. The yards are the poles or sticks at right angles withthe masts that spread the sails. … i6o Summer The boom is the movable spar at the bottom of the sail.The gaff is the pole or spar for spreading the topor head of the sail (Fig. 107). The sail is a big canvas kite, of which the boom, gaff,and masts are the kite-sticks. You must not understandby this that the sail goes soaring up in…
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