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Definition of Headsails
1. headsail [n] - See also: headsail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headsails
Literary usage of Headsails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"Meantime, the headsails are all aback, and the action of the wind on them ...
The ship is now entirely under the power of the headsails and of the rudder, ..."
2. A System of Mechanical Philosophy by John Robison, James Watt (1822)
"The ship continues her conversion by her inherent force and the action of the
headsails. When the ship has fallen off about four points from the wind, ..."
3. Handbook on American Yacht Racing Rules: An Explanation of Their Meaning and by Harry de Berkeley Parsons, Joseph M. Macdonough, Frederic O. Spedden (1915)
"... In all yachts the area of the headsails shall be obtained by multiplying J by
P2, dividing the product by 2, and taking 8j per cent. ..."
4. A Narrative of Four Voyages to the South Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean by Benjamin Morrell (1832)
"The head- yards were braced aback as long as possible, without springing them,
and the headsails were run down the moment they refused to lie aback any ..."
5. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"If the fleet is sailing by a wind in a line of battle, and the admiral would have
them brace their headsails to the mast, he will hoist a yellow flag on the ..."
6. Sailing Ships and Their Story: The Story of Their Development from the by Edward Keble Chatterton (1915)
"By about the beginning of the eighteenth century, the triangular headsails are
seen on full-rigged Dutch ships, whilst the lateen mizzen still continues. ..."
7. Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 by Julian Stafford Corbett, Julian Stafford Corbett, Sir (1905)
"If the fleet is sailing by a wind in a line of battle, and the admiral would have
them brace their headsails to the mast, he will hoist a yellow flag on the ..."
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