main-topgallant
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of main-topgallant
First recorded in 1620–30
Example Sentences
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The men were still aloft when the battery, which had hoisted Spanish colours, opened fire upon us, the first shot severing our larboard main-topgallant back-stay.
From The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba by Symons, W. Christian
Take in the main-topgallant sail!” cried Mr Adrian, and the order was shouted forward.
From Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 by Reed, Talbot Baines
I see that the barometer is inclined to rise; we will, therefore, shake the reef out of the topsails, and set the fore and main-topgallant sails.
From A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy by Hodgson, Edward S.
Away flew the main-topgallant studden sail; the topmast studden sail followed.
From Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days by Kingston, William Henry Giles
"Smoke ho!" would be called from the main-topgallant cross-tree.
From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by Wood, William Charles Henry
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