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mainsail
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mainsail has 1 sense
- mainsail(n = noun.artifact) - the lowermost sail on the mainmast; has particulars: main course
is a kind of canvas, canvass, sail, sheet
CIDE DICTIONARY
mainsail, n.
The principal sail in a ship or other vessel. [1913 Webster]
" The mainsail of a ship is extended upon a yard attached to the mainmast, and that of a sloop or schooner upon the boom."
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"[They] hoised up the mainsail to the wind."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
mainsail, n. Naut.
1 (in a square-rigged vessel) the lowest sail on the mainmast.
2 (in a fore-and-aft rigged vessel) a sail set on the after part of the mainmast.
1 (in a square-rigged vessel) the lowest sail on the mainmast.
2 (in a fore-and-aft rigged vessel) a sail set on the after part of the mainmast.
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