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    MAINSAIL

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The lowermost sail on the mainmastplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting man-made objects

    Hypernyms ("mainsail" is a kind of...):

    canvas; canvass; sail; sheet (a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mainsail"):

    main course (a square mainsail)

    Credits

     Context examples: 

    As quietly as was possible, I clewed up the topsails, lowered the flying jib and staysail, backed the jib over, and flattened the mainsail.

    (The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

    But Maud and I had a way of voicing each other’s thoughts, and she said, as we prepared to hoist the mainsail: To think, Humphrey, you did it all with your own hands?

    (The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

    Three hours more were required to gasket the mainsail and jib, and at two in the morning, nearly dead, the life almost buffeted and worked out of me, I had barely sufficient consciousness to know the experiment was a success.

    (The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)


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