(n.) The upper fore corner of a boom sail or of a trysail.
(v. t.) To notch; to fit to the string, as an arrow; to string, as a bow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similarly, Nocks' embryological development theory is discussed herein.
(2) Further back still, it was the mission statement pronounced in the very title of Alfred Nock’s 1938 anti-New Deal manifesto, Our Enemy The State .
(3) Ian Nock, who runs a consultancy, said his supplier had installed a smart meter despite it being located in his basement where it was unable to get a signal.
Trysail
Definition:
(n.) A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer.