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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or being the mast directly above the foremast.

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  • adjective nautical Designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the topmast.

Etymologies

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fore- +‎ topgallant

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Examples

  • Presently a collier named the Fanny, with her foretopgallant-yard gone, passed us.

    Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

  • A terrific storm was experienced off the west coast of Ireland, in which the foretopgallant mast and jibboom were carried away.

    Young Lion of the Woods A Story of Early Colonial Days Thomas Barlow Smith

  • Thus the forestay comes from the foremast-head to the bows; the foretopmast-stay from the foretopmast-head to the bowsprit-head; the foretopgallant-stay from the foretopgallant-rigging to the jibboom-head; and the foreroyal-stay from the top of the royal mast to the end of the flying-jibboom.

    Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various

  • From the bowsprit-head to the vessel's cutwater runs the bobstay, generally of chain, which takes the pull of the foretopmast-stay; and from the bowsprit-head there hangs the spar known as the dolphin-striker, to give the purchase for continuing the pull of the foretopgallant and foreroyal stays round to the cutwater; so that really all the staying starts from the hull, as does the backstay-staying.

    Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various

  • These braces come down to the ship's sides, or to the heads of the masts fore and aft of those on which the yard is swung; all the mizzen-braces working on the mainmast; the maintopgallant, mainroyal and skysail braces working on the mizzenmast; and the foretopgallant and foreroyal braces working on the mainmast, as is clearly shown in our illustration.

    Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various

  • The truck of the foretopgallant mast was likewise shot away.

    The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914

  • Our ship lay anchored off Curaçoa, and one morning whilst hoisting the foretopgallant mast, the mast 'rope entwined round the foot of a seaman, causing him to fall from the topsail yard to the topgallant forecastle.

    From Lower Deck to Pulpit Henry Cowling 1909

  • The truck of the foretopgallant mast was likewise shot away.

    The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Ernest Scott 1903

  • From it the _Janus_ was the chief sufferer, losing her mizzen topmast and foretopgallant mast.

    The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence 1877

  • Until the morning when a high-pitched yell from the foretopgallant masthead attracted the attention of everybody on deck, including Hornblower, standing lonely in the waist.

    Mr. Midshipman Easy Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848 1873

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