What is "foretopgallant"

Usage examples of "foretopgallant".

Ramage heard a crash aloft and glanced up to see a wild shot had smashed six feet off the end of the foretopgallant yard.

Almost immediately there was a crash aloft and the Calypso's foretopgallant mast crashed down, hanging by rigging, the yard swinging like a pendulum.

That a single shot from a sternchase gun should bring down the Calypso's foretopgallant mast was an almost unbelievable piece of good fortune for the French.

Then we may get under way again, setting the foretopgallant: the course south-west by south.

We came within possible range and we had a few shots, one pitching so close it threw water on to her deck, before a back-stay parted and our foretopgallant came by the board.

He balled up the sheet and threw it into the waste-paper-basket, a mine of interest to Killick and those members of the crew who shared his confidence, and as he did so he heard Pullings cry 'Stand by to hand foretopgallant,' followed immediately by the bosun's call.

And main and mizen topmasts and foretopgallant, all over to leeward, and there we were on our beam-ends, all ports open and three guns breaking loose.

Two points off the winds, she could give even dear old Surprise foretopgallant, at least.

She stood on and on, closer in than he had ever seen any of the blockading squadron, so close that he could see the officer up there with his telescope at the foretopgallant jacks.

Stephen told him that they were rigging out the foretopgallant studdingsail booms.

Ducking to see under the taut arch of the foretopgallant, he fixed the stranger, focused, and stared long and hard.

Now every glass in the Sophie was trained upon the nearer frigate's foretopgallant for the private signal: for although anyone could heave out a blue ensign, only a King's ship could show the secret mark of recognition.

So they might have, if an unlucky shot had not struck the Sophie's foretopgallant yard.

But this was not all: even before the small bower was fished, the jib, forestaysail and foretopgallant had appeared and the frigate was moving faster and faster through the water, heading almost straight for the Nore light.