Main-sail

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• main-sail

  This, in a square-rigged vessel, is distinguished by the so-termed square main-sail; in a fore-and-a...

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• main-sail haul!

  The order given to haul the after-yards round when the ship is nearly head to wind in tacking. ...

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• square main-sail

  See main-sail. ...

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• Main

  ·adj Vast; huge. II. Main ·noun A main-hamper. III. Main ·adj Important; necessary. IV. Main ·nou...

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• main

  very; main good, very good. Also the chief; madam's the main, i. e. madam is the chief or ruler. C. ...

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• main

  A continent or mainland. Also, figuratively, the ocean. ...

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• Sail

  ·noun A wing; a van. II. Sail ·noun To set sail; to begin a voyage. III. Sail ·noun The extended s...

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• sail

  The terms applicable to the parts of a sail comprise: Seaming the cloths together; cutting the gor...

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• sprit-sail top-sail

  A sail extended above the sprit-sail by a yard, which hung under the jib-boom. ♦ Top-gallant sprit...

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• Main yard

  ·- The yard on which the mainsail is extended, supported by the mainmast. ...

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• Main-gauche

  ·noun The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right; — used to parry thru...

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• Main-hamper

  ·noun A hamper to be carried in the hand; a hand basket used in carrying grapes to the press. ...

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• main-body

  The body of troops that marches between the advance-guard and the rear-guard of an army. ...

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• main-boom

  The spar which stretches the foot of the boom-mainsail in a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. ...

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• main-brace

  A purchase attached to the main-yard for trimming it to the wind. ...

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• main-breadth

  The broadest part of a ship at any particular timber or frame, distinguished by upper and lower heig...

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• main-capstan

  The after one, as distinguished from the jeer-capstan. ...

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• main-course

  The main-sail. ...

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• main-guard

  The principal guard of a garrison town, usually posted in the place-of-arms, or the market-place. ...

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• main-hold

  That part of a ship's hold which lies near the main-hatch. ...

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• main-ice

  A body of impenetrable ice apparently detached from the land, but immovable; between which and the l...

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• main-jeers

  Jeers for swaying up the main-yard. ...

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• main-keel

  The principal keel, as distinguished from the false-keel and the keelson. ...

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• main-piece

  The strong horizontal beam of the windlass, supported at the ends by iron spindles in the windlass-b...

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• main-post

  The stern-post, as distinguished from the false-post and inner-post. ...

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• main-shaft

  The principal shaft in machinery. ...

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• main-spring

  The source of continuous motion in a time-keeper. Also, that part of a musket-lock which is sunk int...

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• main-staysail

  A storm-sail set between the fore and main masts. ...

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• main-tackle

  A large and strong tackle, hooked occasionally upon the main pendant, and used for various purposes,...

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• main-transom

  A term often applied to the wing-transom (which see). ...

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• main-wales

  The lower wales, which are generally placed on the lower breadth, and so that the main-deck knee-bol...

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• Studding sail

  ·- A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase...

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• Water sail

  ·- A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to t...

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• top sail

  He paid his debts at Portsmouth with the topsail; i.e. he went to. sea and left them unpaid. SCT sol...

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• drag-sail

  Any sail with its clues stopped so as when veered away over the quarter to make a stop-water when ve...

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• drift-sail

  A contrivance, by means of immersing a sail, to diminish the drift of a ship during a gale of wind. ...

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• fore-sail

  The principal sail set on the fore-mast. (See sail.) ...

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• ghrime-sail

  The old term for a smoke-sail. ...

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• lug-sail

  A sail used in boats and small vessels. It is in form like a gaff-sail, but depends entirely on the ...

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• sail burton

  A purchase extending from topmast-head to deck, for sending sails aloft ready for bending; it usuall...

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• sail ho!

  The exclamation used when a strange ship is first discerned at sea either from the deck or from the ...

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• sail-hook

  A small hook used for holding the seams of a sail while in the act of sewing. ...

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• sail-loft

  A large apartment in dockyards where the sails are cut out and made. ...

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• sail-loosers

  Men specially appointed to loose the sails when getting under weigh, or loosing them to dry. ...

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• sail-maker

  A qualified person who (with his mates) is employed on board ship in making, repairing, or altering ...

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• sail-netting

  The fore-topmast staysail, main-topmast staysail, and main staysail are generally stowed in the nett...

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• sheer-sail

  A drift-sail. ...

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• smoke-sail

  A small sail hoisted against the fore-mast when a ship rides head to wind, to give the smoke of the ...

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• sprit-sail

  A sail formerly attached to a yard which hung under the bowsprit, and of importance in naval actions...

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• square-sail

  The flying sail, set on the fore-yard of a schooner, or the spread-yard of a cutter or sloop. ...

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• steering-sail

  An incorrect name for a studding-sail. ...

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• storm-sail

  A sail made of stout No. 1 canvas, of reduced dimensions, for use in a gale. ...

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• strange sail

  A vessel heaving in sight, of which the particulars are unknown. ...

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• under sail

  The state of a ship when she is in motion from the action of wind on her sails. ...

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• water-sail

  A save-all, or small sail, set occasionally under the lower studding-sail or driver-boom, in a fair ...

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• wind-sail

  A funnel of canvas employed to ventilate a ship by conveying a stream of fresh air down to the lower...

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• coup de main

  A sudden and vigorous attack. ...

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• main royal-mast

  That above the main topgallant-mast. ...

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• main-tack block

  A block forming part of the purchase used for hauling the main-tack down to. ...

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• main-tackle pendant

  A stout piece of rope with a hook in one end, and a thimble in the other, sometimes used for hauling...

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• main-top bowline

  The bowline of the main-topsail. It is used to haul the weather-leech forward when on a wind, which ...

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• main-topsail haul!

  The order used instead of main-sail haul, when the main-sail is not set. ...

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• main-yard men

  Those in the doctor's list. ...

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• crowd sail, to

  To carry an extraordinary press of canvas on a ship, as in pursuit of, or flight from, an enemy, &c....

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• make sail, to

  To increase the quantity of sail already set, either by letting out reefs, or by setting additional ...

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• middling a sail

  Arranging it for bending to the yard. ...

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• out-sail, to

  To sail faster than another ship, or to make a particular voyage with greater despatch. ...

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• press of sail

  As much sail as the state of the wind, &c., will permit a ship to carry. ...

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• pricking a sail

  The running a middle seam between the two seams which unite every cloth of a sail to the next adjoin...

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• sprit-sail yard

  A yard slung across the bowsprit, lashed to the knight-heads, and used to spread the guys of the jib...

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• sprit-sail yarding

  A cruelty in which some fishermen wreak vengeance on sharks, dog-fish, &c., that encroach on their b...

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• square-sail boom

  A boom hooked on to an eye-bolt in the fore-part of the fore-mast of a fore-and-aft vessel, to boom ...

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• studding-sail boom

  A spar rigged out for the purpose of setting a studding-sail, and taking its name from the sail it b...

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• studding-sail yard

  The spar to which the head of the studding-sail is extended. ...

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• top-sail haul!

  or main-topsail haul! When the main-sail is not set, this is the order given to haul the after-yar...

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• fill the main-yard

  An order well understood to mean, fill the main-topsail, after it has been aback, or the ship hove-t...

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• splice the main brace

  In nautical parlance, to serve out an extra allowance of grog in bad weather or after severe exertio...

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• red sail-yard dockers

  Buyers of stores stolen out of the royal yards and docks. ...

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• bunt of a sail

  The middle part of it, formed designedly into a bag or cavity, that the sail may gather more wind. I...

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• depth of a sail

  The extent of the square sails from the head-rope to the foot-rope, or the length of the after-leech...

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• hullock of a sail

  A small part lowered in a gale. ...

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• lateen sail and yard

  A long triangular sail, bent by its foremost leech to a lateen yard, which hoists obliquely to the m...

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• point a sail, to

  To affix points through the eyelet-holes of the reefs. (See points.) ...

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• shoulder-of-mutton sail

  A kind of triangular sail of peculiar form, used mostly in boats. It is very handy and safe, particu...

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• skin of a sail

  The outside part when a sail is furled. To furl in a clean skin, is the habit of a good seaman. ♦ ...

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• sprit-sail sheet knot

  May be crowned and walled, or double-walled, and is often used as a stopper-knot. ...

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• main-piece of the rudder

  The rudder-stock, or piece which is connected by the rudder-bands to the stern-post. ...

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• mate of the main-deck

  The officer appointed to superintend all the duties to be executed upon the main-deck during the day...

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• stay-tackles, fore and main

  Special movable purchases for hoisting in and out boats, anchors, &c. They plumb the fore and main h...

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• goose-wings of a sail

  The situation of a course when the buntlines and lee-clue are hauled up, and the weather-clue down. ...

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• roll up a sail, to

  To hand it quickly. ...

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• as deaf as the main-mast

  Said of one who does not readily catch an order given. Thus at sea the main-mast is synonymous with ...

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• haul aboard the fore and main tacks

  This is to haul them forward, and down to the chess-trees on the weather-side. ...

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• earing-cringle, at the head of a sail

  In sail-making it is an eye spliced in the bolt-rope, to which the much smaller head-rope is attache...

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