English to filipino meaning of

foresail

Ang kahulugan ng diksyunaryo ng "foreseil" ay isang layag na nasa unahan ng mainmast sa isang sailing vessel. Ito ay kadalasang isang tatsulok o may apat na gilid na layag na nakakabit sa forestay at tumutulong upang itulak ang barko pasulong. Ang foreil ay isang mahalagang layag sa sailing rig at kadalasang ginagamit upang kontrolin ang bilis at direksyon ng barko.

Sentence Examples

  1. Her two masts leaned a trifle backward she carried brigantine, foresail, storm-jib, and standing-jib, and was well rigged for running before the wind and she seemed capable of brisk speed, which, indeed, she had already proved by gaining several prizes in pilot-boat races.
  2. When the storm was over we set foresail and mainsail and brought the ship to.
  3. Finding it was like to overblow, we took in our spritsail, and stood by to hand the foresail but making foul weather, we looked if the guns were all fast, and handed the mizzen.
  4. Men worked the yard, unfastening knots to unroll sails at the mizzen, the main, and the foresail.
  5. We reefed the foresail and set him, and hauled aft the foresheet the helm was hard a-weather.
  6. John Bunsby, master, at length gave the order to start, and the Tankadere, taking the wind under her brigantine, foresail, and standing-jib, bounded briskly forward over the waves.
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