A quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail, its head bent to a yard (and its foot sometimes to a boom), which sets before the mast.
Iseyile enamacala amane kumphambili nakumva weseyile, intloko yayo igobele kwintsika edityaniswe ngokunqamlezileyo kwimasti (kwakunye nomphetho osezantsi weseyile ukuya kumphambili wenqanawa), ehlala phambi kwemasti.