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The yard on which the mainsail is extended, supported by the mainmast.
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Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.
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A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See Cutter, and Illustration in Appendix.
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A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig in that she does not carry a square mainsail.
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To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail.
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A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail.
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One of the ropes by which the mainsail is hauled aft and trimmed.
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The principal sail in a ship or other vessel.
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A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail.
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