Usually means: With great speed or force.
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  1. amain: Merriam-Webster
  2. amain: Collins English Dictionary
  3. amain: Vocabulary.com
  4. amain: Wordnik
  5. amain: Wiktionary
  6. amain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. amain: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Amain, amain: Dictionary.com
  9. Amain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. amain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. amain: Rhymezone
  12. Amain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. amain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. amain: FreeDictionary.org
  15. amain: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. amain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. amain: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. amain: Merriam-Webster

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  1. amain: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Amain: Latitude Mexico

Definitions from Wiktionary (amain)

adverb:  (archaic, literary) With all of one's might; mightily; forcefully, violently.
adverb:  (archaic) At full speed; also, in great haste.
adverb:  (British, dialectal) Out of control.
adverb:  (obsolete) Exceedingly; overmuch.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  (nautical) To lower (the sail of a ship, particularly the topsail).
verb:  (figuratively) To decrease or reduce (something).
verb:  (intransitive, nautical) To lower the topsail in token of surrender; to yield.

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