Mainsails

Word MAINSAILS
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Definitions and meanings of "Mainsails"

What do we mean by mainsails?

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

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The word "mainsails" in example sentences

The three men stepped outside in time to see the two schooners go hastily about and head off shore, dropping mainsails and flying jibs on the run in the teeth of the squall that heeled them far over on the whitened water. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Glancing up at the mainsails, his eyes fell on Pazel, and for a moment they regarded each other in silence: an old man stiff and wrinkled as a cypress; a boy in tattered shirt and breeches, nut-brown hair in his eyes, clinging barefoot to the tarred and salt-stiffened ropes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Extreme 40 catamarans sailed their longer race with reefed mainsails and still had plenty to keep their four-man crews occupied. ❋ Bob Fisher In Cowes (2010)

'The spinnaker shape is similar to the * spinnaker* of a yacht ...' mainsails are typically triangular or square and are braced by a mast, a boom, and sometimes additional spars. ❋ Unknown (2007)

What an opportunity they have, the mainsails are blown out and all they can think of doing is polish the brasses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She slipped silently up the inlet on the flood tide, flying only the mainsails of her two masts. ❋ Beverly Swerling (2007)

The royals appeared first, then the topgallants, and beneath them, taut and bellied with wind, the topsails and mainsails of her three masts. ❋ Beverly Swerling (2007)

As one watched a clipper ship grow from the horizon, he observed the sails rising row by row: first the skysails, high atop the masts, then the royals, topgallants, wide topsails, and closest to deck, the mainsails, or courses. ❋ JOE JACKSON (2003)

Men slid down shrouds and scrambled along spars to loose the mainsails. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- (2001)

The sailors were trying to steer Predator with her tattered mainsails. ❋ Thompson, Paul B. (2000)

The topsails were dropped, then the headsails were unfurled as the anchor came clear of the bottom and the ship's head swung away from land as the mainsails were dropped. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- (2000)

The ship had full sails set, the mainsails still reefed, the whole ship throbbing with joy. ❋ Clavell, James (1966)

A cannon boomed from the pirate flagship, and astonishingly all the junks except one turned into the wind and downed mainsails, leaving only their short sails aft to give them leeway. ❋ Clavell, James (1966)

Our mizen mast was carried away -- both our mainsails split -- and we smashed a few spars, and lost some running gear; nothing more serious happened, save the loss of as fine a young fellow as ever trode shoe-leather -- a seaman. ❋ Various (N/A)

After learning the work on the mainsails and trysails he was sent to practise the more acrobatic duties in the tops, and when two months had passed, no one excelled him in quickness aloft. ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)

Allison's sea-faring knowledge of the consistency of mainsails and the size of hawsers. ❋ Champion Ingraham Hitchcock (N/A)

Mostly they were being towed by teams of mules, but one or two were taking advantage of a westerly wind to make the ascent under vast gaff-mainsails. ❋ Forester, C. S. (1938)

With sunset the breeze lightened perceptibly, and Job ordered the reefs shaken out of the fore and mainsails and an extra jib set. ❋ Unknown (1934)

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