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n. Nautical The principal square sail hung to the foremast of a square-rigged vessel.

n. Nautical The principal triangular sail hung to the mast of a fore-and-aft-rigged vessel.

n. Nautical The triangular sail hung to the forestay of a cutter or sloop.

n. The lowest (and usually the largest) square sail hung on the foremast

n. A square fore-and-aft sail set on the foremast, but behind it, on a schooner or other similar vessel.

n. A triangular sail set forward of the foremast

n. The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast.

n. The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner.

n. The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast.

n. Nautical, in a square-rigged vessel, the sail bent to the foreyard; in a schooner, the fore-and-aft sail set on the foremast; in a sloop or cutter, the sail set on the forestay.

n. the lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel

"The awful volume of sound given out by the fierce, headlong swoop of the wind as it bore down upon us quite prepared me to see both masts blown clean out of the schooner; but all her gear fortunately happened to be sound and good, and the loss of the foresail was the full extent of the damage sustained by us."

canvass    canvas    sail    sheet   

balloon-foresail   

topsail    jib    mainsail    staysail    spanker    main-topsail    bowsprit    spencer    topmast    radian