[f. name of the inventor, Captain Bentinck.]
1. pl. Triangular courses, now superseded by storm stay-sails; also used in U.S. as try-sails.
2. Bentinck-boom; a boom that stretches the foot of the fore-sail in many small square-rigged merchantmen; particularly used by whalers among the ice, with a reefed foresail, to see clearly ahead. Bentinck shrouds: shrouds extending from the weather-futtock staves to the opposite lee-channels: not now used. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., 1867.
