Usually means: Sail located forward of mast.
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  1. headsail: Merriam-Webster
  2. headsail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. headsail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. headsail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. headsail: Vocabulary.com
  6. headsail: Wordnik
  7. headsail: Wiktionary
  8. headsail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. headsail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. headsail: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Headsail, headsail: Dictionary.com
  12. Headsail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Headsail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. headsail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. headsail: Rhymezone
  16. Headsail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. headsail: FreeDictionary.org
  18. headsail: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. headsail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. headsail: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (headsail)

▸ noun:  (nautical) Any sail (of a sailing vessel) set forward of the foremost mast.

Similar:
topsail, foresail, foretopsail, sail, staysail, course, gaff sail, saile, balloon sail, foresheet, more...

Opposite:
mainsail, sternsail, aft sail

Types:
jib, genoa, spinnaker, code zero, storm jib, drifter, storm trysail, more...

Adjectives:
single, triangular, large, small, big, furling, little, overlapping, backed

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Similar:
topsail, foresail, foretopsail, sail, staysail, course, gaff sail, saile, balloon sail, foresheet, more...

Opposite:
mainsail, sternsail, aft sail

Types:
jib, genoa, spinnaker, code zero, storm jib, drifter, storm trysail, more...

Adjectives:
single, triangular, large, small, big, furling, little, overlapping, backed



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