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1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 12 The maine top sayle yeard.

1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 14 The maine top sayle hallyards,..the maine top sayle sheats,..the maine top sayle braces.

1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 15 The maine top sayle bowlin.

1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) i. xiv. 64 Main Topsail Lifts.

1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Chron. 66/1 Our maintop-sail tye was shot away.

1813 Examiner 26 Apr. 261/2 The [American frigate] Constitution suffered severely,..having..both maintopsail-yards..badly shot.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xvii. 292 To examine the maintopsail yard, which had been reported as sprung.

1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South I. xiv. 164 Some sailors being aloft in the main-topsail rigging.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. To settle, to lower;..as..‘Settle the main topsail halliards’.

1890 W. C. Russell Marriage at Sea xiii The sailors fell to rounding-in, as it is called, upon the main and main-topsail braces.

1904 B. Heckstall-Smith Dixon Kemp's Man. of Yacht & Boat Sailing (ed. 10) v. 94 ‘Yankee fashion’, having three sheets..namely, the main topsail sheet, the outer and inner sheets on the ends of the jackyard.

1996 P. O'Brian Yellow Admiral v. 110 A squall hit her, carrying her maintopsail braces and then her fore and main topmast, which fell over her lee-guns.