Talk:main

Is it missing a noun dish sense? Wyang (talk) 07:20, 20 March 2015 (UTC)


 * ✅ Now added. Equinox ◑ 11:42, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

The 1850s ballad "Lady Franklin's Lament", detailing Lord Franklin's doomed expedition to find the Northwest Passage, contains two uses of 'main' with different meanings:

1. "Through cruel hardships they mainly strove / Their ship on mountains of ice was drove"

2. "And now my burden it gives me pain / For long-lost Franklin I would cross the main"

Also notice the mostly obsolete use of "burden" to mean the content of a song.

David F. Hutchinson