Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Mainsail

Mainsail (mān"sāl`) , noun

(Nautical) The principal sail in a ship or other vessel.
[They] hoised up the mainsail to the wind. — Acts xxvii. 40

The mainsail of a ship is extended upon a yard attached to the mainmast, and that of a sloop or schooner upon the boom.