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main body

American  

noun

Nautical.
  1. the hull, as distinguished from the rest of a ship.


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The main body of the show, mounted in capacious glass cabinets, is organized around his most notable books.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 26, 2026

Firefighters had anticipated that the blaze would eventually move in this direction and reiterated that the main body of the fire remained inside primary containment lines and that things were still going as planned.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2025

That's to say, the main body of the tour as opposed to the era when the Lions used Australia for warm-up Tests ahead of the big stuff against South and New Zealand?

From BBC Jul. 18, 2025

Moreover, this change in calcium levels occurred not only in the main body of the cell but also within substructures such as mitochondria -- the tiny power plants that cells use to produce energy.

From Science Daily Jun. 4, 2024

These warriors were the main body of fighters; they would wait in ambush.

From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III

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