foresail
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A sail on the front mast of a sailing ship
- noun
- /ˈfɔːrseɪl/
- Specialized
:
vela de proa
- The crew quickly hoisted the foresail to catch the morning breeze.
Examples
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She has the largest jib (foresail/genoa) ever built at 19,730 square feet.
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Brail up the foresail!
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Well, I have an idea for a new kind of foresail.
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- Break fast the foresail!
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Hoist that foresail for us, will you, boys?
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And we raised our largest foresail, the genoa.
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De La Cosa, man the foresail!
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Tighten the buntlines on the foresail!
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Pull up your foresail.
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Stand by your foresails.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Foresail is made of fore- meaning 'front' or 'before' and sail, the large cloth that catches the wind. So a foresail is literally the sail set at the front of a ship.