midmain en · NOUN
Etymology
From mid- + main.
Meanings
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(archaic, poetic, uncountable) 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: