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Main-sailEASTON'S
(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).
Easton's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 3rd ed. (1897), public domain.