main-topsail

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. Kingston

• The 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. Kingston

• Fill the main-topsail,” cried I. “Up with your helm, my man, and let her gather way.

  The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" | Harry Collingwood

• One awful morning in November, 1864, the vessel was hove-to under close-reefed main topsail.

  Windjammers and Sea Tramps | Walter Runciman

• After 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