mainsail
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mainsail (ˈmeɪnˌseɪl, nautical ˈmeɪnsəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
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| nautical the largest and lowermost sail on the mainmast | |
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Mainsail
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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Example sentences
Number of sails, color of mainsail with lettering or design appearing thereon.
Finally, with a storm-reefed mainsail and her trysail set as a jib, she shot away.
Kathryn carries the standard skipjack rig or a jib-headed mainsail and a large jib.
It broke off about eight feet from the deck, and with it went the main boom, mainsail and gaff topsail.
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