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noun
1.
Nautical.
a.
a rope or chain for extending the clews of a square sail along a yard.
b.
a rope for trimming a fore-and-aft sail.
c.
a rope or chain for extending the lee clew of a course.
verb (used with object)
2.
Nautical. to trim, extend, or secure by means of a sheet or sheets.
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Three sheets in the wind
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3.
three sheets in/to the wind, Slang. intoxicated.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
sheet
"rope that controls a sail," O.E. sceatline "sheet-line," from sceata "lower part of sail," originally "piece of cloth," from same root as sheet (1) (q.v.). The sense transferred to the rope by 1294. This is probably the notion in phrase three sheets to the wind "drunk and
EXPANDdisorganized," first recorded 1821, an image of a sloop-rigged sailboat whose three sheets have slipped through the blocks are lost to the wind, thus out of control.
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(rap) sheet definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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three sheets in the wind definitionand three sheets (to the wind); two sheets to the wind
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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