"main-truck" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "\"Main\" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) \"mizzen-truck\".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "main-trucks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "main-truck (plural main-trucks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 9”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
          "text": "But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep. Is not the main-truck higher than the kelson is low?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout."
      ],
      "id": "en-main-truck-en-noun-wA18Jc4h",
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "mast",
          "mast"
        ],
        [
          "sheaves",
          "sheaves"
        ],
        [
          "reeve",
          "reeve"
        ],
        [
          "halyard",
          "halyard"
        ],
        [
          "lookout",
          "lookout"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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 or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "crow's nest"
        },
        {
          "word": "mast"
        },
        {
          "word": "mainmast"
        },
        {
          "word": "truck"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "nautical: circular disc at or near the top of main mast",
          "word": "isomärssy"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "main-truck"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "\"Main\" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) \"mizzen-truck\".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "main-trucks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "main-truck (plural main-trucks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "crow's nest"
    },
    {
      "word": "mast"
    },
    {
      "word": "mainmast"
    },
    {
      "word": "truck"
    }
  ],
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        "en:Nautical"
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        {
          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 9”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
          "text": "But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep. Is not the main-truck higher than the kelson is low?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout."
      ],
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        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "mast",
          "mast"
        ],
        [
          "sheaves",
          "sheaves"
        ],
        [
          "reeve",
          "reeve"
        ],
        [
          "halyard",
          "halyard"
        ],
        [
          "lookout",
          "lookout"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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 or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "nautical: circular disc at or near the top of main mast",
      "word": "isomärssy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "main-truck"
}