mainsheet

Definitions

Examples

• 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.