Fore-topsail: alternatives and connections

To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost.

To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.

The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain o…

To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc.

To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail.

The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.

The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscl…

A band of canvas, to strengthen a sail.

To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.

A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.

A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, e…

A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used…

A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward.

To haul up by the brails; -- used with up; as, to brail up a sail.

The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.

One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.

To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yar…