Lifting sail

(Naut.)

one which tends to lift a vessel's bow out of water, as jibs and square foresails.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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I'll be doing a lot of grinding and lifting sails, definitely.

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