Headsails

Word HEADSAILS
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Definitions and meanings of "Headsails"

What do we mean by headsails?

Any sail (of a sailing vessel) set forward of the foremost mast.

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The word "headsails" in example sentences

At this moment, anchor broken out and headsails running up, Captain ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was rounding up at the time, alongside the shoal -- a ticklish place -- headsails running down and losing way, so I says, 'Excuse me, Miss Lackland,' and yells for'ard, 'Let go!' ❋ Unknown (2010)

Borckman and the black steersman echoed his words, and, as the wheel spun down, the Arangi, with the swiftness of a witch, rounded into the wind and attained a momentary even keel to the flapping of her headsails and a shifting of headsheets. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Uncle Toby swung to her chain, headsails ran down, and the Kanaka crew sprang to fore and main-halyards and sheets. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For the ketch, under her spanker which had just then been flat-hauled, had come into the wind, emptying her after-sail and permitting her headsails to fill on the other tack. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The faint back-draught from the headsails fanned his cheek and chest with ❋ Unknown (2010)

All hands watched her coming on -- the brightly coppered forefoot parting the water like a golden knife, the headsails flapping lazily and emptily at each downward surge, and the towering canvas tiers dipping and courtesying with each stately swing of the sea. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Her headsails emptied, there was a rat-tat of reef-points and quick shifting of boom - tackles, and she was heeled over and filled away on the other tack. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The headsails and mainsail are equipped with manual furling mechanisms, which can be set and trimmed from the cockpit. ❋ MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS (2010)

Just then, to the windward a full-rigged ship bears down on them, "the brightly coppered forefoot parting the water like a golden knife, the headsails flapping lazily ..." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Spar to control headsails, including the spinnaker, used especially when sailing downwind. ❋ Jessica Watson (2010)

For anyone who prided himself on seamanship it was a shocking way to drift across the bay, under headsails only on a day like that. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I gave her the balloon foresail as well, and went back aft; I stopped the motor and we went slipping slowly on under headsails alone. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The topsails were dropped, then the headsails were unfurled as the anchor came clear of the bottom and the ship's head swung away from land as the mainsails were dropped. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- (2000)

The ship jerked as the French used the headsails to bring her around, but without the rudder's pressure she stubbornly went back into irons, and the sails again hammered at the masts. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- (2000)

The headsails flogged and thundered taut, and stressed lines whined as Crow heeled, oar-ports pressed re'morselessly to the waterline. ❋ Wurts, Janny (1989)

Eager for the first stage of conquest to commence, the boy leaned over the rail beneath the rising angle of the headsails. ❋ Wurts, Janny (1989)

From where he stood at the helm the headsails where lost in murk. ❋ Wurts, Janny (1989)

As the Ladywolf shuddered and steadied into a heel, he smiled, his hair tumbled by the eddies off the headsails. ❋ Wurts, Janny (1988)

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