mainsail
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The red sail is the mainsail.
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmeɪnseɪl/, /ˈmeɪnsəl/[1]
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
mainsail (plural mainsails)
- (nautical) The largest (or only) sail on a sailing vessel.
- 1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 16:
- The mainsail was "scandalised" - a nautical mode of describing a sail reefed at both ends[.]
Synonyms
- main (“mainsail”)
Translations
largest sail on a sailing vessel
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References
- ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9), volumes I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 9.62, page 268.