Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong's Definition
properly, something ready (or else more remotely from G142 (αἴρω) (compare G740 (ἄρτος)); something hung up), i.e. (specially) the topsail (rather foresail or jib) of a vessel
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
a topsail, foresail; or, according to others, the dolon of Pliny and Pollux, a small sail near the bow of the ship, which was hoisted when the wind was too strong to use the larger sails, Acts 27:40*
Translated in KJV as
mainsail
Etymology
from a derivative of G737 (ἄρτι);
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