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gaff-topsail
1. ‘A light triangular or quadrilateral sail, the head being extended on a small gaff which hoists on the topmast, and the foot on the lower gaff’ (Adm. Smyth). Also attrib., as gaff-topsail-hook.
1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 83 Over the head of the mainsail a gaff topsail. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle viii, What a gaff-top sail she has got—my eye! 1835Sir J. Ross Narr. 2nd Voy. iv. 44 Taking in the Mainsail, gaff topsail. 1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. x. 349 Gaff top sail Voile à corne. 1884Knight Dict. Mech. IV. 365/1 Gaff-topsail Hook, a mousing hook for a gaff topsail with rope sheet.
fig.1840Marryat Poor Jack ii, Your mother..with..such a rakish gaff topsail bonnet, with pink pennants.
2. U.S. ‘A kind of sea-catfish, ælurichthys marinus’ (Cent. Dict.). |