(Nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind.
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Examples for "sheet"
Examples for "sheet"
1Takai said commodity risk management includes price, procurement and balance sheet risks.
2Would apply to companies whose balance sheet is above 1 billion euros.
3The company has not yet received a charge sheet, the people said.
4Which leads me to the other interesting point in this fact sheet.
5On the crime sheet; up against a reprimand; on trial, in trouble.
1But others have been forced by current circumstances to change tack completely.
2It marks a change of tack when dealing with the financial industry.
3Wired: Gervais takes tack-sharp aim at all things absurd -including himself.
4This time, some companies that had sold guns for years changed tack.
5Mexico's national electricity company CFE will follow a similar tack, she added.
1I'm not sure who said 'there are no pockets in a shroud'.
2When the bands of the shroud have been loosened the people say:-
3The sky was wrapped in its evening shroud of deep, mysterious darkness.
4The shroud application represents one of the first, practical uses for FALCON.
5My iron shroud contracted round me; persuasion advanced with slow sure step.
1Come, Walter, haul in the mainsheet, and come up to the wind.
2The rest of you tail aft to the mainsheet!
3Tell him to slack off the mainsheet, and before you know it, he'd drop the peak.
4An hour later the mainsheet was hanging in the water and the boat drifted with the tide.
5Stand by, to haul in the mainsheet.
1As Dick Adams cast off the weather sheet in the new position, Mr. Norwood hauled in the lee.
2The weather sheets of the fore-staysail were eased off, and the square sails swung round.
3"Break out the jib and haul in the weather sheet," the captain shouted.
4''Sheet home the fore royal!- Weather sheet's home!
Translations for weather sheet