fore-topgallant
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of fore-topgallant
First recorded in 1620–30
Example Sentences
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Seamen of doubtful ability swarmed aloft and started unfurling the upper canvas; three reached the fore-topgallant yard and went out on the footrope with clumsy feet.
From The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage
On the fore-topgallant yard a frigate bird and his mate stood, oblivious of our presence, and looking shoreward at the long, long line of verdure clothing the islets four miles away.
From The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton 1902 by Louis Becke
But at two bells in the second dog-watch, that night, all doubt was put an end to by a sudden, startling cry from the lookout on the fore-topgallant yard of: “Land ho; right ahead!”
From The Castaways by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
Her fore-topgallant main and cross-jack yard were shot away, her yards, rigging, and sails sadly cut up, but what injuries her hull had received we could not make out.
From Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor by Archibald Webb
Saying this he sprung into the rigging and ascended to the fore-topgallant mast-head.
From Mark Seaworth by William Henry Giles Kingston
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