Sentence example with the word 'mainsheet'

mainsheet

Definition n. (nautical) a line

Last update: October 30, 2015


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"Now will one know what a grip on the mainsheet is like."   [Please select]

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I attend to the foresail and Moses manages the mainsheet, but you have to mind the halyards of both, which, as you would see if it were light enough, run down alongside the mast.   [Please select]

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Immediately he leaped back to the stern, fitted in the tiller, and seizing the mainsheet, drew the boom in till the wind should catch in the canvas.   [Please select]

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mainsails - mainsheet - mainspring