foresheet
Americannoun
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the sheet of a headsail.
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(used with a plural verb) foresheets, the space, in an open boat, in front of the foremost rower's seat.
noun
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the sheet of a foresail
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(plural) the part forward of the foremost thwart of a boat
Etymology
Origin of foresheet
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And meanwhile, in the waist up to his knees in water—so low the schooner lay—the captain was hacking at the foresheet with a pocket knife.
From The Ebb-Tide by Lloyd Osbourne
“That’s not unlikely; but let draw the foresheet; we must now get behind the headland.”
From The Pirate by Frederick Marryat
Slack off the weather foresheet, then, and haul aft the leeward.
From Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
"Fill the topsail, and haul aft the foresheet," were the quiet orders that proclaimed what he intended to do.
From The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers by James Fenimore Cooper
Tom sprang to the position which had been occupied by the spokesman of the party, and grasping the foresheet and the tiller of the boat, he soon brought her up to the wind.
From The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army A Story of the Great Rebellion by Oliver Optic
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