Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nautical, the sheets of the head-sails; the jib-sheets.
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Examples
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Well, you don't have to baby her, starting head-sheets, flattening mainsail, and gentling her with the wheel.
Chapter 19 2010
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The brown, breech-clouted Kanaka sailors moved languidly but quickly to head-sheets and boom-tackles.
THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010
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To be precise, the wind is north-east; the Snark's mizzen is furled, her mainsail is over to starboard, her head-sheets are hauled flat: and the Snark's course is south-south-west.
Chapter 2 1913
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To be precise, the wind is north-east; the Snark's mizzen is furled, her mainsail is over to starboard, her head-sheets are hauled flat: and the Snark's course is south-south-west.
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The brown, breech-clouted Kanaka sailors moved languidly but quickly to head-sheets and boom-tackles.
The Pearls of Parlay 1912
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To be precise, the wind is north-east; the Snark's mizzen is furled, her mainsail is over to starboard, her head-sheets are hauled flat: and the
Chapter 2 1911
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Well, you don't have to baby her, starting head-sheets, flattening mainsail, and gentling her with the wheel.
The Lost Toy 1911
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He handled the head-sheets, and then, instead of settling down in his old place, leaned his elbows on the coaming and stared into the sea.
Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 George A. Birmingham 1907
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She could not miss me, and yet I had made almost two miles before she got her head-sheets to windward and stood by for me.
Foe-Farrell Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The brown, breech-clouted Kanaka sailors moved languidly but quickly to head-sheets and boom-tackles.
A Son Of The Sun Jack London 1896
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