maintopsail
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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All our braces and maintopsail yard were shot away, the foremast quite disabled, and the mainmast damaged.
From Privateers and Privateering by Statham, E. P.
He was a prime good seaman, that captain of the Clyde, and he was at that moment looking aloft to see his maintopsail blown to leeward.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by Stoddard, W. O.
The Lady Nepean hurled her old timbers along under close-reefed maintopsail, and a rag of a foresail only.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
The brig was handled smartly; she came to the wind, backed the maintopsail, and lay gently tossing to and fro on the long swells.
From For Love of Country A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution by Brady, Cyrus Townsend
Give her the upper maintopsail, the rest of you.
From "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea by Robertson, Morgan
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