midmain

noun

midmain

noun

Etymology From mid- + main.

1

Archaic, Poetic The middle part of the sea.

The shore his harbour , but the mid-main swum.c. 1610s, Homer (attributed), translated by George Chapman, The Crowne of all Homers Workes: Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise […], published 1624:

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