Goose-winged, they fled before the Golden Bough's charge.

There was no time to man the brakes, they knocked the shackle free, And the Northern Light stood out again, goose-winged to open sea.

The schooner had already crossed the two-decker's bows, and she was now flying goose-winged towards the clouds that hung over La Reunion.

Setting the mainsail and the jib on opposite sides of the boat is often referred to as running "goose-winged", "gull-winged", or "wing-and-wing".

Slocum's log records that, at the time that passengers of the steamer were up to their knees in water in the big ship's saloon, Spray was laying snug under a goose-winged mainsail.