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foresheet

foresheet noun: one of the sheets (ropes) that controls the foresail.

Noun

foresheet (plural foresheets)

  1. one of the sheets (ropes) that controls the foresail
    • 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.1864, Oliver Optic, The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army
    • They saw him board, neatly running the small boat under the schooner's counter; they saw the foresheet eased off and the ship run up into the wind; then the foresail dropped and the wheel lashed so that she would stand so.1907, Stewart Edward White, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Mystery

Forms of foresheet

pluralforesheets
alternative formfore-sheet

Origin of foresheet

From fore- + sheet.

Questions about foresheet

What does foresheet mean?
Foresheet means one of the sheets (ropes) that controls the foresail.
What part of speech is foresheet?
Foresheet is a noun.
What is the plural of foresheet?
The plural of foresheet is foresheets.

Words near foresheet in the dictionary

  1. foreshafts
  2. foreshame
  3. foreshank
  4. foreshanks
  5. foreshape
  6. foresheet
  7. foresheets
  8. foreshew
  9. foreshewed
  10. foreshewer
  11. foreshewers

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