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FORE-AND-AFT SAIL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any sail not set on a yard and whose normal position is in a fore-and-aft direction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("fore-and-aft sail" is a kind of...):
canvas; canvass; sail; sheet (a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel)
Meronyms (parts of "fore-and-aft sail"):
luff ((nautical) the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is next to the mast)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fore-and-aft sail"):
gaff-headed sail; gaffsail (a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff)
fore-and-aft topsail; gaff topsail (a triangular fore-and-aft sail with its foot along the gaff and its luff on the topmast)
jib (any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast))
lateen; lateen sail (a triangular fore-and-aft sail used especially in the Mediterranean)
lug; lugsail (a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast)
mizen; mizzen (fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast)
spanker (a fore-and-aft sail set on the aftermost lower mast (usually the mizzenmast) of a vessel)
spritsail (a fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit)
staysail (a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay (as between two masts))
