- Dumps calm waters - Equatorial calms - Low spirits - A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in
calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all
progress for weeks; -- so called by sailors.
- A light sail set at the side of a principal or square
sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent
to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom. See Illust. of
Sail.