Recent research has favored a display role for the tall sails in Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus.
Finally a tall red-and-gold-striped sail hove into sight from behind the trees.
From a distance, the rigs resemble 19th-century schooners, with dark spruce masts and tall parchment-colored sails.
The tall narrow sail to the right is a refugee from another painting by Cezanne, the "Pastorale" of c. 1870.
At the start, the word skyscraper meant a tall sail on a sailing ship.
Three main types were made over its life, all using gaff rig with a single, tall sail and the mast stepped well forward.
In the distance, he glimpsed the tall white sails of Espinosa's flagship.
They seemed little more than a tall sail or stabilizer mounted on a flat body.
Ahead they saw a tall, limp white sail.
Far away, to the east, they spied the tall white sails of several fishing boats heading out to sea.