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Definition of Mainsails
1. mainsail [n] - See also: mainsail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mainsails
Literary usage of Mainsails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"Men mainsails hoise ; And, lo, from Gaul's shore, borne forth Roman navy !
Pass tardy, in Britain, these erst summer weeks. ..."
2. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1859)
"The mainsails of the mainmast, foremast, ... the lower or mainsails triangular.
9. ID a ship of eleven hundred tons, which was one hundred and twelve feet ..."
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