Headsail

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Headsail \Head"sail`\ (-s[=a]l`), n. (Naut.)
     Any sail set forward of the foremast. --Totten.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  headsail
       n : any sail set forward of the foremast of a vessel