FORESAIL | • foresail n. (Nautical, on a square-rigged ship) The lowest (and usually the largest) square sail hung on the foremast. • foresail n. (Nautical) A square fore-and-aft sail set on the foremast, but behind it, on a schooner or other similar vessel. • foresail n. (Nautical, on a sloop) A triangular sail set forward of the foremast: forestaysail. |
GAFFSAIL | • gaffsail n. (Nautical) A topsail above the uppermost or only spanker. • gaff␣sail n. (Nautical). A quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail supported from a spar rising aft from a mast. • GAFFSAIL n. a quadrilateral foresail. |
HEADSAIL | • headsail n. (Nautical) Any sail (of a sailing vessel) set forward of the foremost mast. • HEADSAIL n. a sail set forward of the foremast of a ship. |
MAINSAIL | • mainsail n. (Nautical) The largest (or only) sail on a sailing vessel. • MAINSAIL n. the principal sail of a vessel. |
MOONSAIL | • moonsail n. (Nautical) A moonraker (sail). • MOONSAIL n. a sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail. |
OVERSAIL | • oversail v. (Transitive, architecture) To figure or variegate. • oversail v. (Law) To project over (as of a crane over a neighbouring property, which may be a trespass). • OVERSAIL v. to project. |
PARASAIL | • parasail n. A wing-shaped parachute that lifts a rider in a harness when towed by a motorboat etc. • parasail v. To take part in the recreational activity of parasailing. • PARASAIL v. to soar while harnessed to a parachute towed by a car or boat. |
REASSAIL | • reassail v. (Transitive) To assail again. • REASSAIL v. to assail again. |
STAYSAIL | • staysail n. (Nautical) A fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff can be affixed to a stay running forward from a mast… • STAYSAIL n. a fore-and-aft sail hoisted on a stay. |
STUNSAIL | • stunsail n. (Nautical) studding sail. • STUNSAIL n. a contraction of studdingsail, an additional sail set at the outer edges of a square sail when the wind is light and abaft the beam. |
WINDSAIL | • windsail n. A wide tube or funnel of canvas, used to convey a stream of air for ventilation into the lower compartments… • windsail n. The sail or vane of a windmill. • WINDSAIL n. a wide funnel of canvas used to convey a stream of air below deck. |