Associations to the word «Goosewing»
Wiktionary
GOOSEWING, noun. (nautical) One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.