midmain

English

Etymology

From mid- +‎ main.

Noun

midmain (uncountable)

1. (poetic, archaic) The middle part of the sea.
   • c. 1610s, Homer (attributed), translated by George Chapman, The Crowne of all Homers Workes: Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise […], published 1624:

     The shore his harbour , but the mid-main swum.

References

• “midmain”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• ammidin