Meaning of Mainsail | Babel Free

Definitions

The largest (or only) sail on a sailing vessel.

Equivalents

Examples

“The mainsail was "scandalised" - a nautical mode of describing a sail reefed at both ends[.]”

“Now stow the mainsail as follows, preferably with the sail still lying in the starboard cockpit: beginning at the head, fold the upper section so that the upper two battens are aligned together; then tightly roll the sail from the head down to the foot. Reinsert the sail into its bag.”

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