GOOSEWING, noun goos'wing. In seamen's language, a sail set on a boom on the lee side of a ship; also, the clues or lower corners of a ship's main-sail or fore-sail, when the middle part is furled.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.