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
Example Sentences
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And it's time to clear and quit When the hawser grips the bitt, So we'll pay you with the foresheet and a promise from the sea!
From Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling
Mark pulled the foresheet tight to the other side.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Richard Jefferies
We reefed the foresail and set him, we hauled aft the foresheet: the helm was hard-a-weather.
From Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World by Thomas M. Balliet
In a quarter of an hour the boat was lying with her foresheet hauled over, and her helm down, within a hundred yards of the object of the long search of the whole party.
From The Lake Gun by James Fenimore Cooper
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
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