fore-topgallant, a. Naut.
(fɔətɒpˈgælənt)
[f. fore- prefix + topgallant.]
Used in Comb. fore-topgallant-mast, the mast above the fore-topmast; hence with sense of ‘of or belonging to the fore-topgallant-mast’, as fore-topgallant-sail (-yard), fore-topgallant-stay, fore-topgallant-yard (-arm).
| 1627 Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. iv. 17 The fore top gallant Mast, the fore top gallant saile yard. 1669 Sturmy Mariner's Mag. i. 16 Take in your Main and Fore-top⁓gallant-sails. 1745 P. Thomas Jrnl. Anson's Voy. 138 And the next Day got up the Fore-top-gallant-mast and Yard. 1805 Nelson 10 Oct. in Nicolas Disp. (1846) VII. 104 A Union Jack is to be suspended from the fore top-gallant stay. 1825 H. B. Gascoigne Nav. Fame 119 The fore-top gallant yard Is torn away. 1844 Regul. & Ord. Army 35 The flag of the Lord High Admiral [shall be hoisted] at the fore-top-gallant-mast-head. |