Foresheet

Word FORESHEET
Character 9
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Definitions and meanings of "Foresheet"

What do we mean by foresheet?

A rope used in trimming a foresail. noun

The space near the bow of an open boat. noun

One of the sheets (ropes) that controls the foresail noun

One of the sheets (ropes) that controls the foresail

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The word "foresheet" in example sentences

"Take a pull on that foresheet," ordered Meadows, but before he could be obeyed the hands he addressed were checked by a shout from Baddlestone. ❋ Forester, C. S. (1967)

Jack thought they had weathered the worst of it, when the foresheet parted and the clew of the foresail, going through the lower foretopsail, split it in ribbons. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Suddenly there was a lift in the rain, and between them and the land they saw another flare, 'Down with the foresheet! ❋ Thomas Stanley Treanor (N/A)

Haul aft the foresheet and sail her up to receive a tow line. ❋ Unknown (1923)

When I do that you will let go the foresheet to help the tartane to fly into the wind's eye. ❋ Unknown (1923)

Bolt said that he had found three dead men, two on the after-deck and one lying at the bottom of the open hold with the bare end of the foresheet in his hand --- ` ` shot down, I suppose, just as he had let it go, '' he commented. ❋ Unknown (1923)

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. ❋ Lloyd Osbourne (1907)

I was hauling in the foresheet and belaying when a sudden waft of fragrance fetched me upright, with head thrown back and nostrils inhaling the breeze. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

We reefed the foresail and set him, and hauled aft the foresheet; the helm was hard-a-weather. ❋ William Patten (1902)

Harvey could feel the land close round him once more, with all its thousands of people asleep, and the smell of earth after rain, and the familiar noise of a switching-engine coughing to herself in a freight-yard; and all those things made his heart beat and his throat dry up as he stood by the foresheet. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

I heard the wheeze of the harmonium, and got back to my own chest-lid (sailor term for my own business) -- "Every man to his own chest-lid and the cook to the foresheet," is it not a suggestive saying? ❋ Unknown (1900)

So we'll pay you with the foresheet and a promise from the sea! ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

A puff of wind came, made the flame of the lamp leap, and outside, high up, the sails fluttered, while near by the block of the foresheet struck a ringing blow on the iron bulwark. ❋ Unknown (1897)

A rope was tied slack under his armpits, and, reaching up at the risk of our lives, we hung him on the foresheet cleet. ❋ Unknown (1897)

We reefed the foresail and set him, we hauled aft the foresheet; the helm was hard aweather. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Then, as the boat ranged up alongside, with her foresheet hauled to windward, the great bodies of the monsters could be seen rushing and plunging and leaping hither and thither, whereupon the whole party of sportsmen opened a vigorous and well-directed fire of arrows and javelins upon them, Harry chiming in with his deadly rifle whenever a good chance for a shot offered itself. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

Moran spun the wheel without reply, and gave an order to Jim to ease off the foresheet. ❋ Frank Norris (1886)

I did not intend to deceive Captain Booden, but being anxious to work my way down to San Francisco, I had shipped as "able seaman" on the Lively Polly, though it was a long day since I had handled a foresheet or anything bigger than the little plungers which hover about ❋ Nathaniel Parker Willis (1875)

The trysail was soon on deck, and then the Seabird was brought up into the wind, the weather foresheet hauled aft, the mizzen sheeted almost fore and aft, and the Seabird lay, head to wind, rising and falling with a gentle motion, in strong contrast to her impetuous rushes when under sail. ❋ Unknown (1867)

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