lazy sheet

On smaller boats the lazy sheet is used as a guy.

It fell the two hundred meters of its descent in a slow lazy sheet.

I grabbed the lazy sheet to collapse the spinnaker and down it came to the leeward hull.

The lake, one of the nation's largest, once spilled south in lazy sheets, feeding the marshes and sawgrass prairies of the Everglades.

For thousands of years, water from 730-square-mile Lake Okeechobee, just north of the Everglades, spilled south in lazy sheets toward the ocean.

As the yacht comes head to wind during a tack, the active sheet is released, and the other sheet (the lazy sheet) on the other side of the boat is pulled in.