Main-sail
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Mainsail (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. (n.) The principal sail in a ship or other vessel.
Multi-Version Concordance Mainsail (1 Occurrence). Acts ...
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Main-sail
Main-sail. << Mainsail, Main-sail. Mainstay >>. Easton's Bible Dictionary (Gr. artemon ...
40). << Mainsail, Main-sail. Mainstay >>. Reference Bible.
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Loosed (41 Occurrences)
... Acts 27:40 And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto
the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind ...
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Mainland (3 Occurrences)

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Mainstay (1 Occurrence)

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Bands (130 Occurrences)
... Acts 27:40 And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto
the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind ...
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Balance (12 Occurrences)
... to balance partners. 18. (n.) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass;
as, to balance the boom mainsail. 19. (vi) To have ...
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Committed (201 Occurrences)
... Acts 27:40 And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto
the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind ...
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Committing (30 Occurrences)
... having taken up, they were committing 'it' to the sea, at the same time -- having
loosed the bands of the rudders, and having hoisted up the mainsail to the ...
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Greek
736. artemon -- something hung up or fastened, ie a foresail
... Word Origin from artao (to fasten to) Definition something hung up or fastened,
ie a foresail NASB Word Usage foresail (1). mainsail. ...
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
(Gr. artemon), answering to the modern "mizzen-sail," as some suppose. Others understand the "jib," near the prow, or the "fore-sail," as likely to be most useful in bringing a ship's head to the wind in the circumstances described (Acts 27:40).

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