| 单词 | topgallant |
| 释义 | topgallant (once / 15994 pages) n WORD FAMILY topgallant: topgallants USAGE EXAMPLESScreaming, a seaman plunged from our topgallant, to die on deck while we were outrunning a storm. Bartlett, Paul Alexander, Voices from the Past(2012) This, with a few topmast and topgallant backstays cut away, and a few shot through our sails, is the only injury the Peacock has sustained. Various, The International Monthly, Volume 4...(2011) But he must go aloft and lay out on the topgallant yard, high up in the darkness, where the masts are bending like willow wands. Kingston, William Henry Giles, Jack Buntline(2011) 1n a sail set on a yard of a topgallant mast Syn|Hyper topgallant sail canvas, canvass, sail, sheet a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel 2n a mast fixed to the head of a topmast on a square-rigged vessel Syn|Hyper topgallant mast topmast the mast next above a lower mast and topmost in a fore-and-aft rig |
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