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The Sheets are ropes used for extending the clues, or lowering the corners of the sails. Brails are ropes used to truss up a sail to a mast or yard. Reef-Bands are long pieces of rough canvass sewed across the sails to give them additional strength. Scudding is a term applied to a vessel when carried furiously along by a tempest.
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