Crossword-Solution: MAINSAIL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mainsail | n. | The principal sail in a ship or other vessel. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “MAINSAIL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Part of a clipper. | 1 answer |
| the lowermost sail on the mainmast | 1 answer |
| largest sail on a mainmast | 1 answer |
| Windjammer sheet | 1 answer |
| What a sane male turns at sea | 1 answer |
| Thing attached to a sloop's boom | 1 answer |
| Square-rigger's necessity | 1 answer |
| Ship's primary canvas | 1 answer |
| Schooner propellant | 1 answer |
| Part of a square-rigger. | 1 answer |
| Mast canvas | 1 answer |
| Kin of a topgallant | 1 answer |
| It's connected to a boom | 1 answer |
| It's above a boom | 1 answer |
| It is usually triangular on a Bermuda rig | 1 answer |
| Important item on a schooner | 1 answer |
| Big part of a ship's rigging | 1 answer |
| Big canvas for an oceanscape? | 1 answer |
| Big canvas | 1 answer |
| Part of a schooner | 2 answers |
| Schooner feature | 4 answers |
| Canvas | 23 answers |
| Sail | 59 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with MAINSAIL (5)
But while we were looking, down came the gaff of her mainsail, and the gaff-topsail fell all adrift; a lucky shot had cut her peak halyards.
The wind, however, coming to blow very fresh from the eastward, with thick and foggy weather, it became necessary to reef the mainsail and set the second jib.
Joe Nagasaki, the 'tender', finding the profits grow small, Said, 'Let us go to the Islands, try for a number one haul! If we get caught, go to prison -- let them take lugger and all!' Kanzo Makame, the diver -- knowing full well what it meant -- Fatalist, gambler, and stoic, smiled a broad smile of content, Flattened in mainsail and foresail, and off to the Islands they went.
The name of the boat on which he found himself was the “Bertha Millner.” She was a two-topmast, 28-ton keel schooner, 40 feet long, carrying a large spread of sail--mainsail, foresail, jib, flying-jib, two gaff-topsails, and a staysail.
Masthead -- masthead, the signal sped by the line o' the British craft; The skipper called to his Lascar crew, and put her about and laughed: -- “It's mainsail haul, my bully boys all -- we'll out to the seas again -- Ere they set us to paint their pirate saint, or scrub at his grapnel-chain.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1957–2023).