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Definition of Foresails
1. foresail [n] - See also: foresail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foresails
Literary usage of Foresails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Californian Illustrated Magazine by Charles Frederick Holder, Edward James Livernash (1892)
"... they ran to the west-northwest with the foresails lowered, for it blew violently;
at the approach of night the wind shifted to the west; ..."
2. Works by James Fenimore Cooper (1892)
"At that moment both the schooners were under their jibs and foresails, each without
... The schooners now took in their foresails, for the double purpose of ..."
3. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"At two oclock fair clear weather and a fresh gale. In the evening little wind.
We lay all with our foresails hauled up to stay for the Bonaventure and about ..."
4. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and by John Clark Ridpath (1903)
"And as the wind increased he gave command, In lowering foresails all their ...
But, ere the foresails are well gathered in, A vast and sudden storm around ..."
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