Usually means: Sail extending beyond the mast.
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  1. goosewing: Merriam-Webster
  2. goosewing: Wordnik
  3. goosewing: Wiktionary
  4. goosewing: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. Goosewing, goosewing: Dictionary.com
  6. Goosewing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. goosewing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Goosewing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. goosewing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. goosewing: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Goosewing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (Goosewing)

noun:  Alternative form of goose wing [(nautical) A position of sails in a fore-and-aft rigged sailboat, in which the mainsail is set to the leeward and the jib to the windward. This position may be used when running (almost) straight downwind. 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.]

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