mainsheet

If she steers hard trim your mainsheet aft and it will ease her.

Seaport towns are full of mainsheet-men; they hop upon one leg, my son, what's left of them, and the rest are dead.

The Ghost swung around into the wind, and I finished my work forward in time to run aft and lend a hand with the mainsheet.

Louise hastily shifted to the opposite side as a counter-balance, and in so doing, released the mainsheet.

He fancied he cried out in warning, but was never sure of it, though three men came running to seize the mainsheet.