fore-topsail
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of fore-topsail
First recorded in 1575–85
Example Sentences
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She was running sluggishly under lower fore-topsail, wallowing like a log-raft in a rapid, and doing less than a third of our knottage.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
She was square-rigged on the foremast, carrying fore-topsail and fore-course.
From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Edward S. Hodgson
When we had everything good and 156 flat and trimmed sheets a bit, the skipper called out to take in the fore-topsail.
From The Seiners by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly
Just then we were making fourteen knots, with only a foresail, a fore-topsail, and main-topsail, the latter two close-reefed.
From Medical Life in the Navy by Gordon Stables
Set the fore-topmast-staysail, let fall the foresail, get the fore-topsail on her, Mr Lowe.
From The Ruined Cities of Zululand by Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley
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