Mainsail

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mainsail \Main"sail`\ (m[=a]n"s[=a]l`), n. (Naut.)
     The principal sail in a ship or other vessel.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           [They] hoised up the mainsail to the wind. -- Acts
                                                    xxvii. 40.


     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: The mainsail of a ship is extended upon a yard attached
           to the mainmast, and that of a sloop or schooner upon
           the boom.
           [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mainsail
       n : the lowermost sail on the mainmast

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  MAINSAIL
       MAchine INdependent SAIL (SAIL)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  MAINSAIL
       
          MAchine INdependent SAIL.  From XIDAK, Palo Alto CA, (415)
          855-9271.
       
       

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Main-sail
     (Gr. artemon), answering to the modern "mizzen-sail," as some
     suppose. Others understand the "jib," near the prow, or the
     "fore-sail," as likely to be most useful in bringing a ship's
     head to the wind in the circumstances described (Acts 27:40).