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Definition of Main-topsail
1. Noun. A topsail set on the mainmast.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Main-topsail
Literary usage of Main-topsail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation by Nathaniel Bowditch (1826)
"The main-topsail must be braced sharp a-back ; keeping the fore and mizen topsails
full ... To fill ir/MI lying-to with the main-topsail to the matt. ..."
2. Scientific American Reference Book by Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond (1913)
"... 3 the foretopmast staysail, 4 the foresail, 5 the mainsail, 6 the cross jack
sail, 7 the spanker, 8 the jigger, 9 the fore topsail, 10 the main topsail, ..."
3. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"Split the main topsail and mainsail all to pieces. ... Got the main topsail down.
Employed fishing the main topsail yard for a main yard. ..."
4. Historical Records of New South Wales by Frank Murcott Bladen (1892)
"to carry as much sail as possible to endeavour to get oft' tlie land ; set
close-reef'd main-topsail, ..."
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