Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Main yard

Main yard

(Nautical) The yard on which the mainsail is extended, supported by the mainmast.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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