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the mast of a ship that is behind the main mast 后桅;次桅 -
a sail on the mizzen of a ship Topics Transport by waterc2后桅纵帆;后帆
Word Originlate Middle English: from Italian mezzana ‘mizzensail’, feminine (used as a noun) of mezzano ‘middle’, from Latin medianus, from medius ‘mid’.