maintopsail
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It was late in the forenoon before the wreck of the foretopmast was launched clear of the ship, and a new maintopsail bent.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various
Mr. Wallingford, do you stand ready to back the maintopsail when she is alongside, though if she attempts to pass in front of us we 'll up helm and take her on the port side.
From For Love of Country A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution by Cyrus Townsend Brady
At last an eighteen-pound shot struck our weather maintopsail yardarm; and the spar snapped in two close outside the slings.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
He therefore resorted to his natural cunning, shortened sail, and at last backed maintopsail, and waited till the English vessel came within pistol-shot.
From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by John Shipp
We drove too far south, and for a week every afternoon we hove-to under a close-reefed maintopsail for fear of the ice throughout the long hours of Antarctic blackness.
From The Honour of the Flag by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
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