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# foresail

«foresail» in Mova's school dictionary: **The main sail on the front mast of a ship** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a foresail, foresails)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The main sail on the front mast of a ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foresail/#m1)

2) On a small sailing boat, the sail in front of the mast, such as a jib. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foresail/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A sailing word found in sea stories and on boating trips. In The Wind in the Willows the Sea Rat tells of his voyages, and Rat dreams of sailing away; sea stories are full of words like foresail, mainsail and rigging.

### examples

- The sailors hoisted the foresail as the wind rose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foresail/#x1)
- The foresail filled with wind and the boat leapt forward. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foresail/#x2)
- In a storm they took down the foresail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foresail/#x3)
- The Sea Rat told of ships with patched foresails sailing south. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foresail/#x4)
- Our dinghy has a mainsail and a small foresail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foresail/#x5)
- Pull the rope to tighten the foresail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foresail/#x6)

### note

Countable. Sailors often say it as FOR-sl. «Fore» means front (as in forehead, foreground); the back of a ship is «aft». Related: mainsail, topsail, jib, mast.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «foresail» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foresail/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.