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Definition of Foresheet
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foresheet
Literary usage of Foresheet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping by Herbert B. Mason (1908)
"... specially from the fore rigging to the anchor stock to prevent the fouling of
the foresheet. Time policy is insuring the subject for a specified time. ..."
2. Athletic Sports for Boys: A Repository of Graceful Recreations for Youth. by Making of America Project (1866)
"Sheets, the ropes by which the lower sails are made fast in the position desired;
we say, for instance, "Haul taut the foresheet," which means, ..."
3. A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing by Dixon Kemp, Brooke Heckstall-Smith (1900)
"An iron bar for the foresheet to work upon. Fore-topman. — In a schooner yacht
a man stationed aloft to work the fore-topsail tack and sheet in going about. ..."
4. The Corinthian Yachtsman, Or, Hints on Yachting by Tyrrel E. Biddle (1881)
"In a schooner, with a boom foresail, the best way, if short handed, is to haul
the foresheet close in and make it fast before attempting to gybe, ..."
5. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1835)
"At this critical juncture, the boatman who held the foresheet let it fly, ...
The other boatman unfortunately became entangled in the flying foresheet of ..."
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