| 单词 | topgallant yard |
| 释义 | > as lemmastopgallant yard a. Of, relating to, or having the position of top-gallant: topgallant mast, topgallant sail, topgallant yard, the mast, sail, or yard above the topmast and topsail; the third mast, sail, or yard above the deck; † topgallant royals n. Obsolete early name for royals (royal n. 7).Often forming with the noun an attributive phrase, as topgallant-mast head, topgallant-sail yard, topgallant-yard man. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > topgallant sail(s) topgallant sail1514 topgallants1599 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > royal sail(s) topgallant royals1514 top-royal?a1535 royal sail1660 royal1769 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [adjective] > topgallant topgallant1514 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > topgallant mast topgallant mast1514 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > yard > other yards sprityard1485 peggy1494 spritsail yard1514 topgallant yard1514 main-topgallant-yard1588 driver yard1757 square yards1769 1514 Inv. Henri Grace de Dieu in Oppenheim Admin. Royal Navy I. 374 Bowlynes to the topgalant yerd... Lyftes to the foretopgalant yerd with iiij single polies. 1514 Inv. Henri Grace de Dieu in Oppenheim Admin. Royal Navy I. 377 Topgalant Sayle. 1514 Inv. Kateryn Forteleza in United Serv. Mag. Mar. (1910) 581 Top galant, top galant mast, shrowdes to the same .vj. 1588 State Papers Dom. Eliz. (P.R.O.) CCXX. lf. 54 The Revendge..A mayne topgallant saile made of an olde myzon. 1588 State Papers Dom. Eliz. CCXX. lf. 71 The Dreadnoughte..one mayne topgallant saile, servic[eable]. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 12 The top gallant mast, the maine top gallant sayle yeard, the trucke, or flagge staffe. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vii. 31 There is also your maine top-saile, and fore top-saile, with their top-gallant sailes. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 7 Sometimes the surges or Sea-flashes doe rebound top-gallant height. 1671 London Gaz. No. 544/3 He caused his Top-gallant Masts and Yards to be taken down, and his Galleries and Quarter Decks to be covered with Canvas made for the purpose, to the end they might take him for a Merchant man. 1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) i. xiv. 64 Main Topsail Lifts..Topgallant Lifts. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Top-Gallant-Masts of a Ship, are two, viz. Maintop-gallant-Mast, and Foretop-gallant-Mast; And these two are small round Pices of Timber, set on to their respective Top-Masts; on the Top of which Masts are set the Flagg-staffs. 1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 506/1 Making all the sail they possibly could set to get from us, with top gallant ryalls, lower top-mast, and top-gallant steering sails, keeping a good full. 1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage iii. 32 There were two seamen on the topgallant yard. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast iv. 30 We sprang aloft immediately and furled the royals and top-gallant-sails. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 45 The topgallant yard men..will go aloft. 1891 Times 21 Oct. 7/4 The Hoffnung,..having..foretopmast and topgallant, with yards and sails attached, carried away; also main topgallant mast with yards. < as lemmas |
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