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Headsail   Listen
noun
Headsail  n.  (Naut.) Any sail set forward of the foremast.






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"Headsail" Quotes from Famous Books



... windward, rose upright, with her heavy main-boom banging to and fro. After that, they were desperately busy for a few minutes. Vane wished that they had engaged a hand in Vancouver, instead of waiting to hire a Siwash somewhere up the coast. There was the headsail to haul to windward, which was difficult, and the mainsheet to get in; then the two men, standing on the slippery, inclined deck, struggled hard to haul the canvas down to the boom. The jerking spar ...
— Vane of the Timberlands • Harold Bindloss



Words linked to "Headsail" :   sheet, canvass, spinnaker



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