fore-topsail
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of fore-topsail
First recorded in 1575–85
Example Sentences
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There are two-topsail schooners both fore and aft, main-topsail schooners, with two square top-sails; fore-topsail schooners with one square top-sail.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
What are you about, sir?”—as the ship suddenly griped and the weather leach of the fore-topsail shook.
From A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy by Edward S. Hodgson
The wheel was now righted, and away the Aurora went, scudding dead before it, under her close-reefed fore-topsail only.
From The Voyage of the Aurora by Harry Collingwood
With the fore-topsail down, we remained stationary; with it up, we gradually moved ahead.
From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by C. Boden Kloss
The main topmast was shot away, the shrouds were torn to threads, and the gaff of the fore-topsail was badly wounded.
From Athelstane Ford by Allen Upward
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