Associations to the word «Mainsheet»
Wiktionary
MAINSHEET, noun. (nautical) The rope connected to and controlling the mainsail.
Dictionary definition
MAINSHEET, noun. (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.