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M MAGAZINE to MARLING-SPIKE MAGAZINE MAGNET MAIN MAKE MALLET MANGER MARINE MARLINE MARLING MARLING-SPIKE MAROON to MAT MATE of a ship of war to MIDSHIPMAN MIZEN to MORTAR MOULD to MUSTERING Search Contact us
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MAINMAIN, an epithet usually applied by sailors to whatever is principal, as opposed to what is inferior or secondary. Thus the main land is used in contradistinction to an island or peninsula; and the main-mast, the main-wale, the main-keel, and the main hatchway, are in like manner distinguished from the fore and mizen-masts, the channel-wales, the false-keel, and the fore and after-hatchways, &c.As the sails, yards, and rigging of the main-mast, are all described in their proper places, namely, under those particular articles, to which the reader is referred, it will be unnecessary to say any thing further of them here.
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