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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Mainsail | by the DICT Development Group |
| 4 results for Mainsail | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Mainsail \Main"sail`\, n. (Naut.) The principal sail in a ship or other vessel. [They] hoised up the mainsail to the wind. -- Acts xxvii. 40. Note: The mainsail of a ship is extended upon a yard attached to the mainmast, and that of a sloop or schooner upon the boom. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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MAINSAIL MAchine INdependent SAIL. From XIDAK, Palo Alto CA, (415) 855-9271. | |
| From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
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Main-sail (Gr. artemon), answering to the modern "mizzen-sail," as some suppose. Others understand the "jib," near the prow, or the "fore-sail," as likely to be most useful in bringing a ship's head to the wind in the circumstances described (Acts 27:40). | |
