Lexicographical Neighbors of Mainboom
Literary usage of Mainboom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing by Dixon Kemp, Brooke Heckstall-Smith (1900)
"A split and hinged eyebolt is the best to adopt. t; The mainboom has a groove
along its •upper side, to take the foot rope of mainsail. ..."
2. Outing (1893)
"extreme beam, 22.6 ft.; draft, 15 ft.; mainboom, 90 ft.; bowsprit outboard, 15 ft.
can representative not yet chosen ; in English waters, ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1894)
"At this moment, by some wrench of the vessels, the mainboom was unshipped, and
ten of the retreating ..."
4. Down Channel: With Introduction by Dixon Kemp by Richard Turrill McMullen (1893)
"The greater part I have weighed, including the ballast, mainboom, topmast, and
many other spars. Anchors are marked, and chains calculated from a table. ..."
5. Monthly Nautical Magazine, and Quarterly Review (1856)
"In fitting a new vessel for this rig, the masthead and mainboom may be a little
longer than for the old rig, but the topmast should not be lengthened. ..."
6. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1905)
"mainboom over, I should have affected the stolid mariner, but the girl evidently
felt, as I did, the exhilaration of our swift passage through the blue, ..."
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