fore-topgallant
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of fore-topgallant
First recorded in 1620–30
Example Sentences
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We had a look-out at each mast-head, and one of the mates, or the boatswain, and sometimes the captain, was stationed at the fore-topgallant yard-arm.
From Old Jack by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Several of the hands, including Foucault and Parratt, had followed, and all looked up; and there they saw the body of Nilsson, hanging on the front of the fore-topgallant sail.
From John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
Saying this he sprung into the rigging and ascended to the fore-topgallant mast-head.
From Mark Seaworth by Kingston, William Henry Giles
A great one to carry sail; yet in the sixteen years of his commands he had had no more serious accident than the loss of a fore-topgallant mast or splitting a couple of courses.
From Java Head by Hergesheimer, Joseph
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 Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell
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