Assertion: sail | /r/HasProperty | cut
Facets:
value: as above
type: OTHER
value: diagonally
type: DEGREE
value: differently
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: As technology improved, sails began to be cut differently, into the more familiar triangular shape we see today.
text: The gore is set down from a square with the opposite selvage, and, the canvas being cut diagonally, the longest gored side of one cloth makes the shortest side of the next; consequently, the first gore being known, the rest are cut by it.
text: Sails, gored with a sweep on the head or the foot, or on both, have the depth of their gores marked on the selvage, from the square of the given depth on each cloth, and are cut as above; the longest selvage of one serving to measure the shortest selvage of the next, beginning with the first gored cloth next the middle, in some sails, and the first cloth next the mast leech, in others.