fore-topsail
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of fore-topsail
First recorded in 1575–85
Example Sentences
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The fore-topsail was blown out of the hands of the four seamen who had gone aloft to secure it.
From The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock by Optic, Oliver
They loosed the fore-topsail and they set the foretopmast staysail.
From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Treanor, Thomas Stanley
"She has gone down the river; and the last I saw of her, she was shaking out her fore-topsail," I replied.
From Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi by Optic, Oliver
The wheel was now righted, and away the Aurora went, scudding dead before it, under her close-reefed fore-topsail only.
From The Voyage of the Aurora by Collingwood, Harry
Just then we were making fourteen knots, with only a foresail, a fore-topsail, and main-topsail, the latter two close-reefed.
From Medical Life in the Navy by Stables, Gordon
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