main-topsail
a topsail set on the mainmast.
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How to use main-topsail in a sentence
Captain Packenham was not a man to run away from either one or the other, so we backed our main-topsail, and lay-to for them.
Hurricane Hurry | W.H.G. KingstonThe main-topgallantsail was let fly, the main-topsail brailed up so as to take the strain off the yard.
The Missing Ship | W. H. G. KingstonFill the main-topsail,” cried I. “Up with your helm, my man, and let her gather way.
The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" | Harry CollingwoodOne awful morning in November, 1864, the vessel was hove-to under close-reefed main topsail.
Windjammers and Sea Tramps | Walter RuncimanAfter the tackling was prepared and in good working order, it took me the greater part of a day to hoist the main topsail.
The Coral Island | R.M. Ballantyne
British Dictionary definitions for maintopsail
/ (ˌmeɪnˈtɒpseɪl, nautical ˌmeɪnˈtɒpsəl) /
nautical a topsail set on the mainmast
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