Definition of Mainseil

Main"sail` (mān"sāl`), n. (Naut.) The principal sail in a ship or other vessel.

[They] hoised up the mainsail to the wind.

Acts xxvii. 40.

&fist; The mainsail of a ship is extended upon a yard attached to the mainmast, and that of a sloop or schooner upon the boom.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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