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Definition of Foresheets
1. foresheet [n] - See also: foresheet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foresheets
Literary usage of Foresheets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1889)
"... crowd the stern or foresheets, or sit upon the gunwale. The coxswain should
have a platform sufficiently large to permit him to brace himself and use ..."
2. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1846)
"As they sailed into the harbour, no one was allowed to stand upon deck, but Cobb
at the helm, and Wolfe in the foresheets, making observations, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Collisions at Sea: With an Appendix, Containing by Reginald Godfrey Marsden (1904)
"Where, for example, an alteration of the helm is not enough, the helm must be
assisted by lowering the peak or letting go the foresheets (*")• So, ..."
4. The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595-1606 by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Clements Robert Markham, Basil Harrington Soulsby, Luis de Belmonte y Bermúdez, Gaspar Gonzalez de Leza, Juan de Torquemada, Luis Vaez de Torres, Diego de Prado y Tobar, Fernando de Castro (1904)
"... the one being quite as much by chance as the other ; for both ends of the lee
foresheets carried away outside the thimble ; the wind was fresh, ..."
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