topgallant

IPA: tˈɑpgæɫʌnt

Examples of "topgallant" in Sentences

There was a similar raised place forward, called the topgallant forecastle.
Then it was clewlines and buntlines and lowering of yards as the topgallant-sails were stripped off.
"It would be good to set the mizzen-topgallant," I heard Captain West mutter in a weak, quavery voice.
The wind, during the night, had so eased that by nine in the morning we had all our topgallant-sails set.
Between whiles, and all the while, he gauged the gusts, and ever his eyes lifted to the main-topgallant-yard.
And at this moment the watch swarmed on to the poop to haul on the port-braces of the mizzen-sky-sail, royal and topgallant-sail.
And each time Mr. Pike glanced aloft at the naked topgallant - and royal-yards, I knew his thought was that they might well be carrying sail.
The skysails were already furled; men were furling the royals; and the topgallant-yards were running down while clewlines and buntlines bagged the canvas.
He was Mulligan Jacobs; and he picked his way back across the wreck of the bridge where the fore-topgallant-yard still lay, and came up to me unafraid, as implacable and bitter as ever.
Mr. Pike was so fooled that he actually had set the topgallant-sails, and the gaskets were being taken off the royals, when the Samurai came on deck, strolled back and forth a casual five minutes, then spoke in an undertone to Mr. Pike.