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