Crossword-Solution: TOPSAIL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Topsail | n. | In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost sail on a mast. This sail is the one most frequently reefed or furled in working the ship. In a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter, Schooner, Sail, and Ship. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TOPSAIL | anagram | APISTOL, APOSTIL, PISTOLA |
We have 22 clues for the answer “TOPSAIL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Feature of some schooners | 1 answer |
| square sail carried on a yard set on a topmast | 1 answer |
| Spinnaker's relative. | 1 answer |
| Ship rig feature | 1 answer |
| Schooner need | 1 answer |
| SQUARE-rigged vessel, sail next above lower sail in | 1 answer |
| SAIL on square-rigged vessel | 1 answer |
| Part of a ship's rig. | 1 answer |
| Part of a schooner's rigging | 1 answer |
| It's above the mizzen | 1 answer |
| It is set high up on a sailing ship | 1 answer |
| Certain nautical canvas | 1 answer |
| Canvas on a windjammer. | 1 answer |
| Brigantine feature | 1 answer |
| Square-rigger feature | 3 answers |
| Ship's canvas | 4 answers |
| Schooner feature | 4 answers |
| Mast attachment | 5 answers |
| Part of a ship's rigging | 7 answers |
| A SMALL MIZZEN IS AFT OF THE RUDDERPOST | 10 answers |
| A SAIL IMMEDIATELY ABOVE THE LOWERMOST SAIL OF A MAST AND SUPPORTED BY A TOPMAST | 11 answers |
| Ship part | 19 answers |
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Sentences with TOPSAIL (5)
Then the sharp, quick order of the captain, "Fore topsail yard there, come down on deck, sir!" brought me down on the run.
The liquor mounted in the heads of all of us, and the talk of Scotty and the harpooner was upon running the Easting down, gales off the Horn and pamperos off the Plate, lower topsail breezes, southerly busters, North Pacific gales, and of smashed whaleboats in the Arctic ice.
Charley smiled at their efforts, and said, “Give her the topsail, Ole.” The cap at the mainmast head was broken out, and sheet and downhaul pulled flat, amid a scattering rifle fire from the boats; and the _Mary Rebecca_ lay over and sprang ahead faster than ever.
You know what it is to lay out on a topsail yard in the thick of it, bucking sleet and snow and frozen canvas till you're ready to just let go and cry like a baby.
The kassab, after having hung the fore-topsail halyards in the becket, strutted into the waist toward a row of men who stood idly with their shoulders against the side of the long boat amidships.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1951–2021).