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mainsheets

mainsheets is the plural 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

Questions about mainsheets

What is mainsheets the plural of?
Mainsheets is the plural of mainsheet.

Words near mainsheets in the dictionary

  1. mainsails
  2. mainsborne
  3. mainshaft
  4. mainshafts
  5. mainsheet
  6. mainsheets
  7. mainshock
  8. mainshocks
  9. mainsleaze
  10. mainspace
  11. mainspaced

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mainsheets (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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