Main-course, the main sail (cf. Course, 9): “bring her to try with m.” Tp. I, 1, 38 (i. e., according to Smith's Sea-Grammar: 'to hale the tacke aboord, the sheet close aft, the boling set up, and the helme tied close aboord').
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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