foresail
IPA: fˈɔrsɛɫ
noun
- (nautical, on a square-rigged ship) The lowest (and usually the largest) square sail hung on the foremast
- (nautical) A square fore-and-aft sail set on the foremast, but behind it, on a schooner or other similar vessel.
- (nautical, on a sloop) A triangular sail set forward of the foremast: forestaysail.
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Examples of "foresail" in Sentences
- The foresail is mounted on a bowsprit.
- A yacht foresail or mainsail support and change over device.
- The foresail was a large one, and it almost becalmed the jib.
- Most had a topsail above the huge mainsail and a large foresail.
- We had been under lower-topsails and a reefed foresail all night.
- In striking the gear, the foresail tack tackle had to be cast off.
- Grief ordered the foresail put on, retaining the reefs, and the Uncle
- On the same boat, a foresail tack is clipped to the deck and forestay.
- In the bay, with elbow room in which to work, we hoisted the foresail.
- A sloop carries only one head sail, called either the foresail or jib.
- There is no foresail boom in any photo, even from her revenue cutter days.
- As far as foresails are concerned, a hanked on working jib seems to fit this bill.
- Take in the foresail — it's more than she can carry already — and stand by to wear her around.
- It was a clumsy way, but it did not take long, and soon the foresail as well was up and fluttering.
- The cheerful sailor crept forward and jibed over the foresail as Charley put the helm to starboard and we swerved to the right into the San Joaquin.
- The air was thick with flying wreckage, detached ropes and stays were hissing and coiling like snakes, and down through it all crashed the gaff of the foresail.
- In the morning we set our foresail, meaning to bear up to the northward, standing off and on to keep away from the current, which otherwise would have set us to the south, away from, all known land.
- The foresail and fore-topsail, emptied of the wind by the manoeuvre, and with no one to bring in the sheet in time, were thundering into ribbons, the heavy boom threshing and splintering from rail to rail.
- The awful volume of sound given out by the fierce, headlong swoop of the wind as it bore down upon us quite prepared me to see both masts blown clean out of the schooner; but all her gear fortunately happened to be sound and good, and the loss of the foresail was the full extent of the damage sustained by us.
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