foresheets

An extremly intricate knot orginally used for belaying the topgallant foresheets of a gaff-rigged China clipper, and now more commonly observed when trying to gen an old kite out of the cupboard under the stairs.

The Meaning of Liff Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1983

Two of the enemy's men entered the boat just where this fellow stood in the foresheets; he immediately saluted them with a ladle full of the stuff, boiling hot which so burned and scalded them, being half-naked that they roared out like bulls, and, enraged with the fire, leaped both into the sea.

The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe 1958

"The current's less a'ready, sir," said the man Gray, who was sitting in the foresheets; "you can ease her off a bit."

Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

In a jiffy I had slipped over the side and curled up in the foresheets of the nearest boat, and almost at the same moment she shoved off.

Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

"Haul aft the main and foresheets!" he sung out in a voice of thunder.

A Voyage round the World A book for boys William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

A set of grass foresheets, too, that we bought in Spain, got to be great favourites, though, in the end, they cost the ship the life of a very valuable man.

Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast James Fenimore Cooper 1820

I was very anxious to go on service, and O'Brien, who had command of the first cutter, allowed me to go with him, on condition that I stowed myself away under the foresheets, that the captain might not see me before the boats had shoved off.

Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 Frederick Marryat 1820

He had bribed the bowman of the second cutter to allow him to conceal himself under the foresheets of the boat.

Peter Simple Frederick Marryat 1820

Two of the enemy's men entered the boat just where this fellow stood in the foresheets; he immediately saluted them with a ladle full of the stuff, boiling hot which so burned and scalded them, being half-naked that they roared out like bulls, and, enraged with the fire, leaped both into the sea.

The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe 1719

Two of the enemy's men entered the boat just where this fellow stood in the foresheets; he immediately saluted them with a ladle full of the stuff, boiling hot which so burned and scalded them, being half-naked that they roared out like bulls, and, enraged with the fire, leaped both into the sea.

The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1696