mainsheet
Origin of mainsheet
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How to use mainsheet in a sentence
If she steers hard trim your mainsheet aft and it will ease her.
On Yacht Sailing | Thomas Fleming DaySeaport towns are full of mainsheet-men; they hop upon one leg, my son, what's left of them, and the rest are dead.
The Ebb-Tide | Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyde OsbourneThe Ghost swung around into the wind, and I finished my work forward in time to run aft and lend a hand with the mainsheet.
The Sea-Wolf | Jack LondonLouise hastily shifted to the opposite side as a counter-balance, and in so doing, released the mainsheet.
Saboteurs on the River | Mildred A. WirtHe fancied he cried out in warning, but was never sure of it, though three men came running to seize the mainsheet.
Masters of the Wheat-Lands | Harold Bindloss
British Dictionary definitions for mainsheet
/ (ˈmeɪnˌʃiːt) /
nautical the line used to control the angle of the mainsail to the wind
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