Word Meanings - TOPSAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost sail on a mast. This sail is the one most frequently reefed or furled in working the ship. In a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter, Schooner,

Additional info about word: TOPSAIL

In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost sail on a mast. This sail is the one most frequently reefed or furled in working the ship. In a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter, Schooner, Sail, and Ship. Topsail schooner. See Schooner, and Illustration in Appendix.

Related words: (words related to TOPSAIL)

• SQUARE
  1. To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit. No works shall find acceptamce . . . That square not truly with the Scripture plan. Cowper. 2. To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or
• REEFY
  Full of reefs or rocks.
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• WORKMANSHIP
  1. The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton. 2. That
• WORKBAG
  A bag for holding implements or materials for work; especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like.
• REEF-BAND
  A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for reefing are made. Totten.
• SQUARE-TOED
  Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox.
• WORKBENCH
  A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.
• SQUARELY
  In a square form or manner.
• REEFING
  The process of taking in a reef. Reefing bowsprit, a bowsprit so rigged that it can easily be run in or shortened by sliding inboard, as in cutters.
• WORKDAY
  A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.
• SQUARE-RIGGED
  Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.
• ABOVEBOARD
  Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
• ABOVESAID
  Mentioned or recited before.
• FURLONG
  A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards. (more info) prop., the length of a furrow; furh furrow + lang long. See Furrow,
• WORKSHOP
  A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
• ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
  Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• WORK
  1. To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor. He could have told them of two or three gold mines, and a silver mine, and given the reason why they forbare to work them at that time. Sir
• SCHOONER
  A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale.
• ROCKWORK
  Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• JOURNEYWORK
  Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade.
• FRETWORK
  Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Heuce, any minute play of light andshade, dark and light, or the like. Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine.
• RUBBLEWORK
  Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• T SQUARE
  See T
• CUTWORK
  An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.
• BOBBINWORK
  Work woven with bobbins.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• STOCKWORK
  A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
• LAPWORK
  Work in which one part laps over another. Grew.
• CHAINWORK
  Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.
• PANELWORK
  Wainscoting.
• UNFURL
  To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag.
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.