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main sheet

main sheet is the alternative form of mainsheet.

Meaning of mainsheet

Noun

mainsheet (plural mainsheets)

  1. The rope connected to and controlling the mainsail.
    • Push the rudder down to a vertical position, then tighten the green line and place in the same cam cleat on the tiller shaft; be careful not to wrap or foul the mainsheet traveler line.(Can we date this quote?), “Pico Rigging Instructions”, in California State University, Sacramento, page 1

Forms of main sheet

pluralmain sheets

Questions about main sheet

What is main sheet the alternative form of?
Main sheet is the alternative form of mainsheet.

Words near main sheet in the dictionary

  1. main road
  2. main roads
  3. main sequence
  4. main sequences
  5. main shaft
  6. main sheet
  7. main sheets
  8. main signal
  9. main signals
  10. main stage
  11. main stages

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Adapted from Wiktionary: main sheet (page history and authors); mainsheet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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