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Definition of Headsail
1. Noun. Any sail set forward of the foremast of a vessel.
Definition of Headsail
1. n. Any sail set forward of the foremast.
Definition of Headsail
1. Noun. (nautical) Any sail (gloss of a sailing vessel) set forward of the foremost mast. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Headsail
1. a type of sail [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headsail
Literary usage of Headsail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Naval Constructor: A Vade Mecum of Ship Design for Students, Naval by George Simpson (1918)
"I. The perpendicular I to be measured from the deck, at the foreside of the mast
to where the line of the luff of the foremost headsail, or of the spinnaker ..."
2. The Naval Constructor: A Vade Mecum of Ship Design for Students, Naval by George Simpson (1914)
"I. The perpendicular I to be measured from the deck, at the foreside of the mast
to where the line of the luff of the foremost headsail, or of the spinnaker ..."
3. Sailing Ships and Their Story: The Story of Their Development from the by Edward Keble Chatterton (1915)
"The reader will recollect that this shaped headsail had first been introduced on
the Dutch sloops of the sixteenth century, with their foresail working on a ..."
4. Down Channel: With Introduction by Dixon Kemp by Richard Turrill McMullen (1893)
"... according as we wore her first on one tack and then on the other. With one
headsail and the mizen full, it was impossible to prevent the vessel I ..."
5. Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing by Dixon Kemp (1884)
"The one headsail is set flying with tack to bowsprit end like a jib, with as many
as four jibs to suit different points of sailing, strength of wind, ..."
6. Small Yacht Construction and Rigging by Linton Hopo (1903)
"SMALL YACHT CONSTRUCTION AND RIGGING. i67 ular for racing and cruising in yachts
of over 8 tons TM, the single headsail of the sloop being too unwieldy in ..."
7. Water Hazard by John Gunn (1995)
"One let the headsail sheet go and I heard the crack of the sail as it thrashed
like a wild thing. The other was heaving like a madman on the mainsheet, ..."
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