main-sail

At last, hoisting the reefed main-sail and slacking off a few of the hard-won feet of the chain, we sailed the anchor out.

SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010

The Samoset, with fore - and main-sail winged out on either side, was slipping a lazy four-knots through the smooth sea.

Bunches of Knuckles 2010

As it was the Mist was nearly dead before the wind, and this maneuver was bound to force her to jibe her main-sail from one side to the other.

To Repel Boarders 2010

Look here, we will build a craft of some twenty tons, and then we can make a main-sail, a foresail, and a jib out of that cloth.

The Mysterious Island 2005

Look here, we will build a craft of some twenty tons, and then we can make a main-sail, a foresail, and a jib out of that cloth.

The Mysterious Island 2005

The prodigious strain upon the main-sail had parted the weather-sheet, and the tremendous boom was now flying from side to side, completely sweeping the entire after part of the deck.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

An accidental jibe is an inadvertent changing of the main-sail from one side of the boat to the other and can result in damage to the boom, rigging, and sails.

Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998

An accidental jibe is an inadvertent changing of the main-sail from one side of the boat to the other and can result in damage to the boom, rigging, and sails.

Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998

I emerged just in time to duck beneath the main-sail boom as it came swinging ponderously overhead with a couple of boatmen clinging on, yelling bloody murder as they tried to secure it.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

I emerged just in time to duck beneath the main-sail boom as it came swinging ponderously overhead with a couple of boatmen clinging on, yelling bloody murder as they tried to secure it.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985