mains'l

noun

A mainsail.

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Meanings

nounmains'l (plural mains'ls)

plural mains'ls

  1. colloquialnauticalA mainsail.

    Bend, oh, bend your mains'l, we're back to Yankeeland

    1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC
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Chicago

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