Usage examples (32)

• He had picked up some of the names, but he had no idea which sail the mizzen skysail was, nor the fore topgallant.
• Instead of using the largest rope on board a ship, the smallest -- skysail bunt-line -- would have been more to the point.
• As it was, they cut away the remnants of the mizzen-lower-topsail with their sheath-knives, and they loosed the main-skysail out of its bolt-ropes.
• The part of the topgallantmast above the topgallant-rigging is called the royal-mast or royal-pole, and the continuation above the royal-rigging, if any, is the...