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topgallant
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun topgallant has 2 senses
- topgallant(n = noun.artifact) topgallant sail - a sail set on a yard of a topgallant mast; Array is a kind of canvas, canvass, sail, sheet
- topgallant(n = noun.artifact) topgallant mast - a mast fixed to the head of a topmast on a square-rigged vessel; Array is a kind of topmast
CIDE DICTIONARY
topgallant, a.
- Situated above the topmast and below the royal mast; designatb, or pertaining to, the third spars in order from the deck; as, the topgallant mast, yards, braces, and the like. See Illustration of Ship. [1913 Webster]
- Fig.: Highest; elevated; splendid. L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
topgallant, n.
- A topgallant mast or sail. [1913 Webster]
- Fig.: Anything elevated or splendid. Bacon. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
topgallant, n. Naut. the mast, sail, yard, or rigging immediately above the topmast and topsail.
ROGET THESAURUS
topgallant
Summit
N summit, summity, top, peak, vertex, apex, zenith, pinnacle, acme, culmination, meridian, utmost height, ne plus utra, height, pitch, maximum, climax, culminating point, crowning point, turning point, turn of the tide, fountain head, water shed, water parting, sky, pole, tip, tip top, crest, crow's nest, cap, truck, nib, end, crown, brow, head, nob, noddle, pate, capsheaf, high places, heights, topgallant mast, sky scraper, quarter deck, hurricane deck, architrave, frieze, cornice, coping stone, zoophorus, capital, epistyle, sconce, pediment, entablature, tympanum, ceiling, attic, loft, garret, house top, upper story, summit conference, summit, peak of achievement, peak of performance, peaks and troughs, peaks and valleys (in graphs), highest &c (high), top, top most, upper most, tiptop, culminating, meridian, meridional, capital, head, polar, supreme, supernal, topgallant, atop, at the top of the tree, en flute, fleur deau.
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