NOUN
- a sail set on a yard of a topgallant mast
- a mast fixed to the head of a topmast on a square-rigged vessel
How To Use topgallant In A Sentence
- Then the topgallant masts and sail fell onto the forecastle, dragging in the water until cut free.
- Of historical interest are the topgallant sails carried on the fore and main masts, the lateen topsails and topgallants on the mizzen and the topsail on the bonaventure mizzen mast at the stern.
- 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. Java Head
- Sure, you need to be able to tell the contemporary equivalent of a fore topgallant from a mizzen topsail, but that's what all those seminars and lectures are for.
- Fitted above the topgallants were royals and above them skysails.
- Gaskets made of French sennit are only used for topgallant and royal yards.
- She is generally under two topsails, fore and main topsails, fore and foretopmast staysails, sometimes topgallant sails and jib, but seldom any sail on the mizzen, except while in chase of a vessel.
- At 9: 30p.m. on July 25, 1850, a sleek Baltimore clipper with her topgallants and topsails set approached the treacherous Mendocino coast.
- On Rose, the lower masts are steel and the topmasts and topgallant masts are wooden, typically pine or spruce.
- A glance revealed that the main topgallant mast had been carried away.
