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- noun Plural form of
headsail .
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Examples
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At this moment, anchor broken out and headsails running up, Captain
CHAPTER II 2010
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Borckman and the black steersman echoed his words, and, as the wheel spun down, the Arangi, with the swiftness of a witch, rounded into the wind and attained a momentary even keel to the flapping of her headsails and a shifting of headsheets.
CHAPTER II 2010
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I was rounding up at the time, alongside the shoal -- a ticklish place -- headsails running down and losing way, so I says, 'Excuse me, Miss Lackland,' and yells for'ard, 'Let go!'
Chapter 17 2010
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The Uncle Toby swung to her chain, headsails ran down, and the Kanaka crew sprang to fore and main-halyards and sheets.
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For the ketch, under her spanker which had just then been flat-hauled, had come into the wind, emptying her after-sail and permitting her headsails to fill on the other tack.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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The faint back-draught from the headsails fanned his cheek and chest with
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All hands watched her coming on -- the brightly coppered forefoot parting the water like a golden knife, the headsails flapping lazily and emptily at each downward surge, and the towering canvas tiers dipping and courtesying with each stately swing of the sea.
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Her headsails emptied, there was a rat-tat of reef-points and quick shifting of boom - tackles, and she was heeled over and filled away on the other tack.
THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010
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The headsails and mainsail are equipped with manual furling mechanisms, which can be set and trimmed from the cockpit.
OVERBOARD ! MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS 2010
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The headsails and mainsail are equipped with manual furling mechanisms, which can be set and trimmed from the cockpit.
OVERBOARD ! MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS 2010
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