topgallant
Britishnoun
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Also called: topgallant mast. a mast on a square-rigger above a topmast or an extension of a topmast
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Also called: topgallant sail. a sail set on a yard of a topgallant mast
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(modifier) of or relating to a topgallant
Etymology
Origin of topgallant
C16: from top 1 + gallant
Vocabulary lists containing topgallant
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Like acrobats, the crew scurried up the masts to the upper topgallant sails that rose nearly 200 feet above us.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
Tatters of foam and spindrift swept over the deck and dashed as high as the topgallant yards.
From Doubloons—and the Girl by John Maxwell Forbes
In the same manner, the two topgallant sails gave way, though they were not half worn out.
From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis
She then ran up that “flaunting lie,” the “old flag,” and clewed up her topgallant sails, and hauled up her courses, and submitted to her fate, with such resignation as she might.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
Royal masts, and topgallant masts and yards had from the first been struck, top masts were housed,—still frantically onward flew the ship, scudding under bare poles.
From Jack Buntline by William Henry Giles Kingston
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