Crossword-Solution: HEADSAIL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Headsail | n. | Any sail set forward of the foremast. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “HEADSAIL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Attachment at the front of a sloop, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Foremast attachment | 1 answer |
| Foremast jib | 1 answer |
| any sail set forward of the foremast | 1 answer |
| Flying jib, e.g. | 2 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with HEADSAIL (5)
Just before sunset the bright spot for which we had been on the look-out made its appearance in the southwest, and in an hour afterward we perceived the little headsail we carried flapping listlessly against the mast.
Captain Barrington and his officers were trying to get some headsail put on the vessel to keep her head up to the huge waves, but they were unwilling to imperil any one's life by ordering him out on the plunging bowsprit, that was now reared heavenward and again plunged downward as if pointing to the bottom of the sea.
There was the headsail to haul to windward, which was difficult, and the mainsheet to get in; then the two men, standing on the slippery, inclined deck, struggled hard to haul the canvas down to the boom.
First, the smallness of the yard to which the head of the gaff-topsail is laced; and secondly, the great size of the headsail.
The ship required some headsail, and this would not try the damaged mast so severely as the foresail had done, with its wide extent of canvas.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2002–2023).