fore-sheetn.
/ˈfɔːʃiːt/, U.S. /ˈfɔrˌʃit/ Nautical.
1. The rope by which the lee corner of the foresail is kept in place.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > sheet or brace
sheet1336
swing-rope1336
shoot1405
mainbrace1485
mainsheet1485
top-sheet1485
smite1494
tailing-rope1495
tail-rope1495
brace1626
stern-sheets1626
trimmers1630
fore-sheet1669
jib-sheet1825
boom-sheet1836
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. 16 Round aft the Main sheets, and Fore-sheets.
1670 J. Dryden & W. Davenant Shakespeare's Tempest i. 3 Flat in the Fore-sheat there.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 28 We broke our Larboard Fore-sheet and fixed a new one.
2. plural. The inner part of the bows of a boat, fitted with gratings upon which the bow-man stands (Adm. Smyth).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > fore part of vessel > [noun] > inner parts with gratings
fore-sheets1719
bow-sheet1836
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 270 Two of the Enemies men entred the Boat just where this Fellow stood, being in the Fore-sheets.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xv. 226 I stowed myself away under the fore-sheets.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island iii. xiii. 108 In a jiffy I had slipped over the side, and curled up in the fore-sheets of the nearest boat.
Compounds
fore-sheet horse, fore-sheet traveller (see quots.).
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1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. Fore-Sheet Horse, an iron rod or piece of wood fastened at its ends athwart the deck of a single masted vessel, before the mast, for the foresail sheet to travel upon.
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. at Traveller The Fore-sheet Traveller is a ring..which traverses on the fore-sheet horse.
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