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ˈstern-sheet Naut.
[f. stern n.3 + sheet n.2; cf. next.
The parallel of fore-sheet, which is however comparatively late, suggests that sense 1 is original, and senses 2, 3 secondary with the general signification ‘the place from which the mizen-sheets are controlled’. But historical evidence is lacking, and it is not impossible that some other meaning of OE. scéat is the basis of senses 2, 3.]
†1. pl. The ropes controlling the mizen-sail. Obs.
1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 15 The misen sheats, are called the starne sheats.
2. sing. and pl. The internal stern portion of a boat; spec. that part abaft the hindmost thwart.
1481Cely Papers (Camden) 71, j pack lyeth yn the sterne shete. 1568Adm. Crt. Oyer & Ter. 75 He was in the said catche [ketch] sittinge in the sterne sheates thereof. a1625Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. MS. 2301) 71 That part with in bord abaft in y⊇ Run of the Shipp is called the Sterne sheats [cf. sheet n.2 3 quot. 1644.] 1766Smollett Trav. II. 5 There is a tilt over the stern sheets [of the feluca], where the passengers sit. 1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. vi. (ed. 2) 226 A similar locker to be built in the after part of the stern sheet for the officers. 1905Quiller-Couch Shining Ferry vii, The party settled themselves in the stern sheets.
3. pl.
a. The flooring boards in the after portion of a boat or small ship.
1644,1898[see sheet n.2 3]. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey) s.v. Sheats, Stern-Sheats, the Planks that are within board abaft in the Run of the Ship.
b. The seats with which the after portion of a boat is furnished.
1912‘G. A. Birmingham’ Inviolable Sanctuary xviii. 280 She herself pulled a spinnaker from beneath the stern-sheets. |