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FORE-TOPSAIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fore-topsail mean? 

FORE-TOPSAIL (noun)
  The noun FORE-TOPSAIL has 1 sense:

1. the topsail on a foremastplay

  Familiarity information: FORE-TOPSAIL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FORE-TOPSAIL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The topsail on a foremast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("fore-topsail" is a kind of...):

topsail (a sail (or either of a pair of sails) immediately above the lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast)


 Context examples 


The foresail and fore-topsail, emptied of the wind by the manœuvre, and with no one to bring in the sheet in time, were thundering into ribbons, the heavy boom threshing and splintering from rail to rail.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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