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main-course Naut. ? Obs.
[See main a. and course n. 33.]
= mainsail.
c1515Cocke Lorell's B. (Percy Soc.) 12 Some y⊇ longe bote dyde launce, some mende y⊇ corse, Mayne corfe [read corse] toke in a refe byforce. 1610Shakes. Temp. i. i. 38 Down with the top-Mast; yare, lower, lower, bring her to Try with Maine-course. 1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 16 The maine course or a paire of courses. 1687B. Randolph Archipelago 102 Towards break of day we handed our main course, but before it was well secured the storm came. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1858) ii. ii, Having no sails to work the ship with, but a main course [etc.]. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. |