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  • noun Plural form of mainsheet.

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Examples

  • Lashing the wheel I ran forward, eased the fore and mainsheets, took in on the boom-tackles and trimmed everything for the quartering breeze which was ours.

    Chapter 39 2010

  • After a time, Jaric leaned around her, yanked mainsheets and jib taut, and swung the steering oar to restore Callinde's course.

    Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

  • Stay the mainsheets, matten down the batch covers and mizzle the fizzenmast!

    Circus World Longyear, Barry 1981

  • Lashing the wheel I ran forward, eased the fore and mainsheets, took in on the boom-tackles and trimmed everything for the quartering breeze which was ours.

    The Sea Wolf Jack London 1896

  • "slacken off the mainsheets," whereupon the lugger was brought alongside the wreck of the cutter.

    Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene

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