maintopgallant love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The name given to the rigging, yard, and sail belonging to the maintopgallant-mast.

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Examples

  • It snapped out from the maintopgallant backstay, a long, shot-torn streamer of sable without device.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: This Forsaken Earth - Paul Kearney Blue Tyson 2009

  • 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

  • I seemed as far down to the ground from there as it did from the maintopgallant yard.

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

  • At this moment, the vessels fired a last salute with all their artillery, and the frigate took in her flags, keeping up only her flag at the stern and the royal standard at the maintopgallant-mast.

    The Second Funeral of Napoleon William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Some time before the night set in, both frigates and the sloop were under maintopgallant-sails only, with topmast and lower studding-sails on each side.

    The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • I have been on the maintopgallant yard, with the best glass in the ship, and have swept the whole coast, from the ruins over against us, here to the eastward, up to the town of Salerno; there is nothing to be seen as large as a sparanara. "

    The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

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