Flowing sheet
| (Naut.) | a sheet when eased off, or loosened to the wind, as when the wind is abaft the beam. - Totten. |
See also: Flowing
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
References in classic literature
"A fair wind and a
flowing sheet, you know, or however it goes."
at his own face reflected in a
flowing sheet of creek.
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