A rope (or chain) attached to either of the lower corners of a square sail (or the after lower corner of a fore-and-aft sail), and used to extend…

Nautical. ? = sheet, n.2 1. Obsolete.

= sheet, n.2

The brace attached to the main yard.

Nautical. The rope which controls the boom of the mainsail when set. Also figurative.

Probably: a rope attached to either of the lower corners of a sail. Cf. tack, n.1 5a.

= tail-rope, n. 2a.

A rope forming or attached to the tail, or the hinder or lower end of anything; in various technical… Nautical. (Also tailing-rope.) A sheet. (Now…

A rope attached to the yard of a vessel for the purpose of ‘trimming’ the sail.

plural. The ropes controlling the mizen-sail. Obsolete.

plural. Ropes and yards for trimming the sails of a ship: see trim, v. 15. Obsolete. rare.

The rope by which the lee corner of the foresail is kept in place.

one of the ropes by which the jib is trimmed, stretching from its clew to the bows of the ship.

a sheet fastened to a boom.