Sheet

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt the book itself.

II. Sheet ·vt To expand, as a sheet.

III. Sheet ·vt A Sail.

IV. Sheet ·vt A broad expanse of water, or the like.

V. Sheet ·vt A single signature of a book or a pamphlet;.

VI. Sheet ·vt An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.

VII. Sheet ·vt To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.

VIII. Sheet ·vt The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.

IX. Sheet ·vt A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.

X. Sheet ·vt A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, ·etc.

XI. Sheet ·vt In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, ·etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.

XII. Sheet ·vt A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body.

XIII. Sheet ·vt A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind;

— usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.

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    An iron ring which traverses along on the fore-sheet horse of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. ...

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    The order to ease off; give her rope. ...

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    A man's saying that he will not start tack or sheet implies resolution. ...

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    Standing bitt-heads through which the topsail-sheets lead, and to which they are belayed. ...

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    To pull it in more towards the stern, so as to trim the sail nearer to the wind. ...

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    Half intoxicated; as the sail trembles and is unsteady, so is a drunken man. ...

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    May be crowned and walled, or double-walled, and is often used as a stopper-knot. ...

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    That part which is secured to a ring at the ship's bow, quarter, side, &c. ...

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