单词 | topgallant |
释义 | topgallantn.adj. A. n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > platform at top of mast > platform on specific masts maintop1485 mizzen-top1497 foretop1509 topgallant1514 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 278 The Regent, Also a Toppe maste aboue the mayne Toppe maste, Rotteyn perused & consumyd to noght. A sayle to the same.. Also viij Shrowdes belongyng to the same.] 1514 Inv. Henri Grace de Dieu in Oppenheim Admin. Royal Navy I. 374 Toppe Galant apon the foretopmast..j. 1514 Inv. Henri Grace de Dieu in Oppenheim Admin. Royal Navy I. 375 The top Galant apon the mayne topmast..j. 1514 Inv. in United Serv. Mag. (1910) Mar. 581 The top galant. The mast to the same .j. The sayle yerd. 1569 J. Sparke Sir J. Hawkins' 2nd Voy. (1878) 50 The Jesus also bare a light in her toppegallant. 1590 E. Spenser Visions Worlds Vanitie ix A goodly ship with banners bravely dight, And flag in her top-gallant, I espide. 2. plural. Short for topgallant sail at sense B. 1a: the sails above the topsail and topgallant.This use appears to have come in as sense A. 1 became obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > topgallant sail(s) topgallant sail1514 topgallants1599 1599 T. Dallam Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) i. 9 They..made away with all the sayle they had, drablings and topgalands, but..we came nearer and nearer unto them. 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 46 When Kings are haleing up their top-gallant, Subjects lay hold on their slablines. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. lxiv A fresh gale..began to fill the..Top-gallants. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xi. 138 She had..got up..jury-masts, with topgallants for topsails. 3. a. transferred (from A. 1, A. 2) The most elevated (literal or figurative) part or member of anything; see quots., and also top and topgallant at top n.1 9c. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > upper part > top piece or part overmosta1382 overesta1400 topple14.. uppermost1484 topgallant1581 upmost1589 crownwork1594 heading1665 battlement1667 crowning1692 crown piece1766 surmounting1812 crista1849 surmount1879 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 388 If these two gallaunt Gyaunts apply no stronger pillers..to vphold the Majesticall State of theyr toppegallaunt of Rome. 1618 G. Strode Anat. Mortalitie 83 The Peacocke..when he..seeth his black feete,.. vaileth his top-gallant, and seemeth to sorrow. 1656 I. Bourne Def. Script. 15 A faith in Christ..was the top gallant of a Christian. 1878 R. L. Stevenson Edinb. (1889) 29 A few spires, the stone top-gallants of the city. b. figurative. The highest point or pitch; summit. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [noun] > peak of perfection perfection1340 pointc1400 pinnaclec1450 firmament1526 tipe1548 vertical point1559 acmea1568 status1577 summity1588 sublimation1591 turret1593 topgallant1597 non ultra?1606 vertical1611 non plus ultra1647 ne ultraa1657 verticle1658 summit1661 ne plus ultra1664 ne plus1665 nonplus1670 tip-top1702 pink1720 sublime1748 eminencea1854 it1896 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iii. 179 Which to the high top-gallant of my ioy Must be my conduct in the secret night. View more context for this quotation 1666 W. Sancroft Lex Ignea 17 The very Top-gallant of all our Glory. 1679 C. Ness Distinct Disc. Antichrist 149 From..the top-gallant of his Luciferian pride. 1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiii. ix. 523 He seems to himself a man at the topgallant of his wishes. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > [noun] > flirt > male flirt > ladies' man or philanderer gallanta1450 dalliera1568 women's man1568 amorist1595 woman's man1597 lady-mongerc1600 dammaret1635 topgallant1701 agapet1736 ladies' man1764 Jack among the maids1785 philanderer1841 Romeo1902 tea-hound1921 bird dog1942 1701 G. Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair iv. ii. 36 And such as He are all those Top-Gallants that daily haunt my House, ruin your Honour, and disturb my Quiet. B. adj. 1. a. Of, relating to, or having the position of top-gallant: topgallant mast, topgallant sail, topgallant yard, the mast, sail, or yard above the topmast and topsail; the third mast, sail, or yard above the deck; † topgallant royals n. Obsolete early name for royals (royal n. 7).Often forming with the noun an attributive phrase, as topgallant-mast head, topgallant-sail yard, topgallant-yard man. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > topgallant sail(s) topgallant sail1514 topgallants1599 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > royal sail(s) topgallant royals1514 top-royal?a1535 royal sail1660 royal1769 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [adjective] > topgallant topgallant1514 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > topgallant mast topgallant mast1514 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > yard > other yards sprityard1485 peggy1494 spritsail yard1514 topgallant yard1514 main-topgallant-yard1588 driver yard1757 square yards1769 1514 Inv. Henri Grace de Dieu in Oppenheim Admin. Royal Navy I. 374 Bowlynes to the topgalant yerd... Lyftes to the foretopgalant yerd with iiij single polies. 1514 Inv. Henri Grace de Dieu in Oppenheim Admin. Royal Navy I. 377 Topgalant Sayle. 1514 Inv. Kateryn Forteleza in United Serv. Mag. Mar. (1910) 581 Top galant, top galant mast, shrowdes to the same .vj. 1588 State Papers Dom. Eliz. (P.R.O.) CCXX. lf. 54 The Revendge..A mayne topgallant saile made of an olde myzon. 1588 State Papers Dom. Eliz. CCXX. lf. 71 The Dreadnoughte..one mayne topgallant saile, servic[eable]. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 12 The top gallant mast, the maine top gallant sayle yeard, the trucke, or flagge staffe. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vii. 31 There is also your maine top-saile, and fore top-saile, with their top-gallant sailes. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 7 Sometimes the surges or Sea-flashes doe rebound top-gallant height. 1671 London Gaz. No. 544/3 He caused his Top-gallant Masts and Yards to be taken down, and his Galleries and Quarter Decks to be covered with Canvas made for the purpose, to the end they might take him for a Merchant man. 1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) i. xiv. 64 Main Topsail Lifts..Topgallant Lifts. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Top-Gallant-Masts of a Ship, are two, viz. Maintop-gallant-Mast, and Foretop-gallant-Mast; And these two are small round Pices of Timber, set on to their respective Top-Masts; on the Top of which Masts are set the Flagg-staffs. 1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 506/1 Making all the sail they possibly could set to get from us, with top gallant ryalls, lower top-mast, and top-gallant steering sails, keeping a good full. 1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage iii. 32 There were two seamen on the topgallant yard. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast iv. 30 We sprang aloft immediately and furled the royals and top-gallant-sails. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 45 The topgallant yard men..will go aloft. 1891 Times 21 Oct. 7/4 The Hoffnung,..having..foretopmast and topgallant, with yards and sails attached, carried away; also main topgallant mast with yards. b. See quotations. ΚΠ 1839 F. Marryat Phantom Ship I. viii. 165 On her forecastle another small deck ran from the knight-heads, which was called the top-gallant forecastle. 1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding xii. 238 It is customary to complete the topsides above this gunwale by, what is termed, a top-gallant bulwark formed of wooden berthing and stanchions. 2. Allowing topgallant sails to be used, as topgallant gale, topgallant breeze, topgallant weather. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > allowing specific sails to be carried topsail cole1390 loom1600 reef-topsail1693 topgallant1697 whole-sail1824 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iv. 79 We had it [sc. wind] at E.S.E. where it stood a considerable time, and blew a fresh top gallant gale. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Tems à perroquet, a top-gallant gale, top-gallant weather. 1798 Authentic Narrative Battle of Nile 21 The wind was at this time N.N.W. and blew what Seamen call a Top~gallant breeze. 1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 68 The wind..blew what seamen call a top-gallant breeze. It was necessary to take in the royals when the squadron hauled upon a wind. 1873 Routledge's Young Gentleman's Mag. July 494/1 A good ‘topgallant breeze’ sprung up. 3. figurative. Lofty, grand, fine, topping: cf. sense A. 3. 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Sylvester Lacrymæ Lacrymarum B iv Stript..Of guiddie-Gaudes, Top-gallant Tires and Towers. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. vi. 108 Sure I am, the Babylonians were more top-gallant then the Iews, and quite put them down with bravery. 1733 A. Pope Impertinent 14 Top-gallant he, and she in all her Trim. 1850 G. Cupples Green Hand v. 54/2 Here he [the sailor] came out with a regular string of top-gallant oaths. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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