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studding

9.9

An extra sail set outside a square sail to make a ship go faster in light wind

noun
/ˈstʌdɪŋ/

Archaic

: vela adicional

To enhance performance in calm weather, they decided to deploy the studding sails after checking the weather forecast.

Examples

The crew hurried to set the studding sails to maximize their speed as the gentle breeze filled the canvas.
Set the royals and the studding sails, Mr. Worf. Worf looks at him blankly for a moment.

Fiction book (1994)
After preparing the ship, the captain instructed, "Raise the studding sails to catch the wind and glide faster across the sea."

Antonyms

dismantling

14 4.4

The act of taking a machine or system apart

Surface Forms

studding singular

studs plural

Morphology

studding = stud (opaque) = stud + ing

Although the form contains 'stud' + '-ing', the nautical meaning 'additional sail' depends on a specialized historical sense that is not predictable from the modern base word.

Etymology

Studding comes from the old sailing name studding-sail, which meant an extra sail set 'outside' a ship's square sail to catch more wind. So studding is easy to remember as adding 'extra wings' to make a ship go faster.