main course
noun
Nautical. a square mainsail.
the principal dish or course of a meal, typically including meat or fish.
Origin of main course
First recorded in 1505–15
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Towards midnight of the 20th June, the wind increased so much, that we had to lay our ship a-try all night under her main-course.
The jib and flying jib were also taken in, and a little later the main-course and the mizzen-course.
At the Fall of Port ArthurEdward Stratemeyer
main course
noun
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