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
Example Sentences
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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
And then it was Nils Sturika went up the topgallant shrouds by his hands, with the flag in his teeth, and lashed it fast to the pole.
From Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport by Nilsen, Anthon Bernhard Elias
With a constitution like mine, you never know—to-morrow I may be carrying topgallant sails again: but just at present I am scraping along with a jurymast and a kind of amateur rudder.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
A tall-masted brig, with royal and topgallant sails drawing full, was retreating in the distance.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
I held on to my topgallant sails, though the masts buckled, and bent as though the sticks would go over the side.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
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