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Definition of Topgallant sail
1. Noun. A sail set on a yard of a topgallant mast.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Topgallant Sail
Literary usage of Topgallant sail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"A schooner uses the same sails as a cutter, except that, in one form, »ke carries
a square topsail and topgallant-sail on the foremast. ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1868)
"A schooner uses the same sails as a cutter, except that, in one form, ehe carries
a square topsail and topgallant-sail on the foremast. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"Had Johnson defined the " topgallant-sail " as the highest sail, he would have
... But it is manifest that if the •' topgallant-sail " was the highest sail, ..."
4. Chambers's encyclopædia by Chambers W. and R., ltd (1874)
"A schooner uses »i «ame «ails as a cutter, except that, in one form, « carries
a square topsail and topgallant-sail on the foremast. ..."
5. Two years before the mast: or, A voice from the forecastle by Richard Henry Dana (1854)
"Here comes his fore topgallant sail in!"—We are wide awake, ... The second mate
holds on to the main topgallant sail until a heavy sea is shipped, ..."
6. Scientific American Reference Book by Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond (1913)
"... 22 the fore topgallant sail, 23 the main topgallant sail, 24 the mizzen
topgallant sail, 25 the fore royal, 26 the main royal, 27 the mizzen royal, ..."
7. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1853)
"... as the main topgallant sail, though the yard is lighter ¡is well as the sail,
and so on upwards, the same relative proportions exist between tho yards ..."
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