sheet
- noun
- /ʃiːt/
- Jargon
- He learned how to tie the sheet properly to manage the sail effectively.
Examples
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Can you pull in the main sheet?
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Hilary slammed his own tiller into the leeward rail and lunged for the jib sheet.
Fiction book (1990) -
You mean the jib sheet, sir?
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Haul the sheets handsomely, boys.
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BOATER: Hey, fellows, haul in your sheet.
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Man the mizzen top-sail sheets.
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The sloop had heeled over, George trimming in the sheet and yanking on the tiller, with Sarah clinging to his chest like a scared little monkey.
Fiction book (1999) -
Can you adjust the sheet to catch more wind and help us sail faster?
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The crew scrambled to tighten the sheet as the wind picked up during the race.
Synonyms
A rope or chain used to control the angle of a sail to the wind
A rope attached to a sail corner used to control its angle
A rope used to pull the main sail and change its angle to the wind
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A document that shows what a company owns, what it owes, and its value on a date
- Specialized
A file that tells a web page how to look, for example fonts and colors
- Literature
A short paper that gives advice and guesses about business, stocks, or horse racing
- Specialized
A row of metal boards pushed into the ground to hold back soil or water
- Jargon
A knot used to join one rope to another, even when they are different thicknesses
- Specialized
The job of shaping and joining thin metal sheets to make building parts like vents
- Specialized
Looking at a company's money, debts, and owners' share to judge its financial health
- Specialized
A diagram that shows the order of steps in a process, like a computer program or accounting system
- Specialized
A large sheet of paper printed with many pages before cutting or folding
- Specialized
A long flat piece of metal, wood, or concrete driven into the ground to hold back soil and water
- Specialized
A thin flat metal made by rolling or hammering used for roofs and building parts
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Etymology
The rope called a sheet got its name because it controls the 'corner' of the sail, so the line that pulls that part of the spread cloth became the sheet.