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Is it missing a noun dish sense?Wyang (talk)07:20, 20 March 2015 (UTC)Reply
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 theymainly 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 themain"
Also notice the mostly obsolete use of "burden" to mean the content of a song.
David F. Hutchinson