mainsail

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mainsail - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mainsail \Main"sail`\ (m[=a]n"s[=a]l`), n. (Naut.)
     The principal sail in a ship or other vessel.
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           [They] hoised up the mainsail to the wind. -- Acts
                                                    xxvii. 40.
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     Note: 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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mainsail - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mainsail
      n 1: the lowermost sail on the mainmast

mainsail - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  MAINSAIL
  
     MAchine INdependent SAIL.
  

mainsail - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  MAINSAIL
         MAchine INdependent SAIL (SAIL)
         

mainsail - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Main-sail
  (Gr. artemon), answering to the modern "mizzen-sail," as some
  suppose. Others understand the "jib," near the prow, or the
  "fore-sail," as likely to be most useful in bringing a ship's
  head to the wind in the circumstances described (Acts 27:40).