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- noun nautical On a wooden
mast , a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes orsheaves toreeve signalhalyards ; also a temporary or emergency place for alookout . "Main" refers to themainmast , whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
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Examples
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Is not the main-truck higher than the kelson is low?
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"It's one of our cruisers, boys," whispered Captain Harding, whose keen eyes had distinguished a pendant flying from the main-truck of the new-comer.
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"I tell you what, you shall slush that mast down from the main-truck to the bitts; and look sharp about it, too, or I'll make you!"
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg
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The decks themselves were as white as holystones, sand, and much elbow grease could make them, and, with her white hull with its encircling green riband and cherry-red waterline, her yellow lower masts and funnel, and a brand-new pendant flying from the main-truck and large White Ensign flapping lazily from its staff on the poop, the
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He came aboard with a black coat, and his papers right, and money enough in his box to buy the thing right up from keel to main-truck.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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He came aboard with a black coat, and his papers right, and money enough in his box to buy the thing right up from keel to main-truck.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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He came aboard with a black coat, and his papers right, and money enough in his box to buy the thing right up from keel to main-truck.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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He came aboard with a black coat, and his papers right, and money enough in his box to buy the thing right up from keel to main-truck.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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Salters was not an amiable person (He esteemed it his business to keep the boys in order); and the first time Harvey, in fear and trembling, on a still day, managed to shin up to the main-truck
Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900
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"He hung my boots on the main-truck, and he ain't over an 'above respectful to such as knows more'n he do, specially about farmin'; but he were mostly misled by Dan."
Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900
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