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noun Nautical.

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

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Showers and perhaps some downpours may move through during the main body of the day.
D.C.-area forecast: Temperatures eye the 80-degree mark today, despite occasional clouds|A. Camden Walker|October 8, 2021|Washington Post
To survive in deep space, Lucy will carry two round solar arrays flanking the spacecraft’s main body.
Meet Lucy: NASA’s new asteroid-hopping spacecraft|Charlie Wood|September 29, 2021|Popular-Science
Despite the abundance of spacious pockets on the main body of the pack, those on the hip belt were far too small to stash my phone.
I Tested Mountain Hardwear’s New PCT Pack on Its Namesake Trail|mlarsen|August 31, 2021|Outside Online
The only downside—the electrical cord cannot disconnect from the main body, which means hand washing only.
Best pet water fountains: Never refill a bowl again|Florie Korani|July 7, 2021|Popular-Science

The goal is to crash into the asteroid’s secondary body, a “moonlet” called Dimorphos that’s as wide as one and a half football fields, and change the speed of its orbit around the main body.
What Would We Do If an Asteroid Hit Earth? NASA Is Simulating It This Week|Vanessa Bates Ramirez|April 28, 2021|Singularity Hub
And not just sick in the body but in your mind, because you start obsessing.
How Taryn Toomey’s ‘The Class’ Became New York’s Latest Fitness Craze|Lizzie Crocker|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In other words, the free speech exhibited by the folks at Charlie Hebdo was not virtuous—until there was a body count.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead|Luke O’Neil|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It jettisons jiggling ribbons of joy to every part of my body.
‘A Gronking to Remember’ Speed Read: 8 Naughtiest Bits|Emily Shire|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
My body used for his hard pleasure; a stone god gripping me in his hands.
‘A Gronking to Remember’ Speed Read: 8 Naughtiest Bits|Emily Shire|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“I have to think her body type played a role,” said Rachel Greenblatt, a Lecturer in Jewish Studies at Harvard University.
Why Was Bess Myerson the First and Last Jewish Miss America?|Emily Shire|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801)|Daniel Defoe
The sad end of the mission to King M'Bongo has been narrated in the body of this work.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
The evening previous to his death he was walking about the farm, in the full possession of all his faculties of mind and body.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
The generall mayne body of the planters are divided into Officers, Laborers, Farmors.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
(c) Decomposition of exudates anywhere in the body, as in empyema, bronchiectasis, and large tuberculous cavities.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd

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