Associations to the word «Mainsail»

Wiktionary

MAINSAIL, noun. (nautical) The largest (or only) sail on a sailing vessel.

Dictionary definition

MAINSAIL, noun. The lowermost sail on the mainmast.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope