FORESAIL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("foresail" is a kind of...):

canvas; canvass; sail; sheet (a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel)

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 Context examples: 

The foresail and fore-topsail, emptied of the wind by the manœuvre, and with no one to bring in the sheet in time, were thundering into ribbons, the heavy boom threshing and splintering from rail to rail.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)