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mainsails

mainsails is the plural of mainsail.

Meaning of mainsail

Noun

mainsail (plural mainsails)

  1. The largest (or only) sail on a sailing vessel.
    • The mainsail was "scandalised" - a nautical mode of describing a sail reefed at both ends[.]1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 16
    Synonyms:
    main

Questions about mainsails

What is mainsails the plural of?
Mainsails is the plural of mainsail.

Words near mainsails in the dictionary

  1. mains
  2. mains hum
  3. mains'l
  4. mains'ls
  5. mainsail
  6. mainsails
  7. mainsborne
  8. mainshaft
  9. mainshafts
  10. mainsheet
  11. mainsheets

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