Usually means: Primary sail on the foremast.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word foresail:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. foresail: Merriam-Webster
  2. foresail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. foresail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. foresail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. foresail: Vocabulary.com
  6. foresail: Wordnik
  7. Foresail: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. foresail: Wiktionary
  9. foresail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. foresail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. foresail: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Foresail, foresail: Dictionary.com
  13. Foresail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Foresail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. foresail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. foresail: Rhymezone
  17. Foresail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. foresail: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. foresail: FreeDictionary.org
  20. foresail: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. foresail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. foresail: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foresail: Encyclopedia

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Foresail: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Foresail: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (foresail)

noun:  (nautical, on a square-rigged ship) The lowest (and usually the largest) square sail hung on the foremast
noun:  (nautical) A square fore-and-aft sail set on the foremast, but behind it, on a schooner or other similar vessel.
noun:  (nautical, on a sloop) A triangular sail set forward of the foremast: forestaysail.

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