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topsail
(encz) | topsail, |
Topsail
(gcide) | Topsail \Top"sail`\, n. (Naut.)
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.
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Topsail schooner. (Naut.) See Schooner, and Illustration
in Appendix.
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topsail
(wn) | topsail
n 1: a sail (or either of a pair of sails) immediately above the
lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast |
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fore-and-aft topsail
(encz) | fore-and-aft topsail, n: |
fore-topsail
(encz) | fore-topsail, n: |
main-topsail
(encz) | main-topsail, n: |
Club topsail
(gcide) | Club \Club\ (kl[u^]b), n. [Cf. Icel. klubba, klumba, club,
klumbuf[=o]ir a clubfoot, SW. klubba club, Dan. klump lump,
klub a club, G. klumpen clump, kolben club, and E. clump.]
1. A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded with
the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.
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But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs;
Rome and her rats are at the point of battle.
--Shak.
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2. [Cf. the Spanish name bastos, and Sp. baston staff, club.]
Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the
trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having
such figure.
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3. An association of persons for the promotion of some common
object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship,
etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments
or contributions of the members.
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They talked
At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics. --Tennyson.
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He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original members
of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes
been called the Literary Club, but which has always
disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the
simple name of the Club. --Macaulay.
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4. A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a
contribution to a common fund.
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They laid down the club. --L'Estrange.
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We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings
for our part of the club. --Pepys.
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Club law, government by violence; lynch law; anarchy.
--Addison.
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Club root (Bot.), a disease of cabbages, by which the roots
become distorted and the heads spoiled.
Club topsail (Naut.), a kind of gaff topsail, used mostly
by yachts having a fore-and-aft rig. It has a short "club"
or "jack yard" to increase its spread.
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Fore-topsail
(gcide) | Fore-topsail \Fore`-top"sail\ (? or ?), n. (Naut.)
the topsail on a foremast. See Sail.
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Gaff-topsail
(gcide) | Gaff-topsail \Gaff`-top"sail\, n. (Naut.)
A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the
gaff and its luff upon the topmast.
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Jib topsail
(gcide) | Jib \Jib\ (j[i^]b), n. [Named from its shifting from side to
side. See Jib, v. i.., Jibe.]
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1. (Naut.) A triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard
extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the
bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry
several jibs; as, inner jib; outer jib; flying jib; etc.
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2. (Mach.) The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load
is suspended.
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3. One that jibs, or balks; a jibber.
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4. A stationary condition; a standstill.
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Jib boom (Naut.), a spar or boom which serves as an
extension of the bowsprit. It is sometimes extended by
another spar called the flying jib boom. [Written also
gib boom.]
Jib crane (Mach.), a crane having a horizontal jib on which
a trolley moves, bearing the load.
Jib door (Arch.), a door made flush with the wall, without
dressings or moldings; a disguised door.
Jib header (Naut.), a gaff-topsail, shaped like a jib; a
jib-headed topsail.
Jib topsail (Naut.), a small jib set above and outside of
all the other jibs.
The cut of one's jib, one's outward appearance. [Colloq.]
--Sir W. Scott.
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main-topsail
(gcide) | main-topsail \main-topsail\ n.
a topsail set on the mainmast.
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Topsail
(gcide) | Topsail \Top"sail`\, n. (Naut.)
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.
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Topsail schooner. (Naut.) See Schooner, and Illustration
in Appendix.
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topsail schooner
(gcide) | Schooner \Schoon"er\, n. [See the Note below. Cf. Shun.]
(Naut.)
Originally, a small, sharp-built vessel, with two masts and
fore-and-aft rig. Sometimes it carried square topsails on one
or both masts and was called a topsail schooner. About
1840, longer vessels with three masts, fore-and-aft rigged,
came into use, and since that time vessels with four masts
and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with
more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners,
four-masted schooners, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
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Note: The first schooner ever constructed is said to have
been built in Gloucester, Massachusetts, about the year
1713, by a Captain Andrew Robinson, and to have
received its name from the following trivial
circumstance: When the vessel went off the stocks into
the water, a bystander cried out,"O, how she scoons!"
Robinson replied, " A scooner let her be;" and, from
that time, vessels thus masted and rigged have gone by
this name. The word scoon is popularly used in some
parts of New England to denote the act of making stones
skip along the surface of water. The Scottish scon
means the same thing. Both words are probably allied to
the Icel. skunda, skynda, to make haste, hurry, AS.
scunian to avoid, shun, Prov. E. scun. In the New
England records, the word appears to have been
originally written scooner. Babson, in his "History of
Gloucester," gives the following extract from a letter
written in that place Sept. 25, 1721, by Dr. Moses
Prince, brother of the Rev. Thomas Prince, the annalist
of New England: "This gentleman (Captain Robinson) was
first contriver of schooners, and built the first of
that sort about eight years since."
[1913 Webster]Topsail \Top"sail`\, n. (Naut.)
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.
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Topsail schooner. (Naut.) See Schooner, and Illustration
in Appendix.
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Topsail schooner
(gcide) | Schooner \Schoon"er\, n. [See the Note below. Cf. Shun.]
(Naut.)
Originally, a small, sharp-built vessel, with two masts and
fore-and-aft rig. Sometimes it carried square topsails on one
or both masts and was called a topsail schooner. About
1840, longer vessels with three masts, fore-and-aft rigged,
came into use, and since that time vessels with four masts
and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with
more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners,
four-masted schooners, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
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Note: The first schooner ever constructed is said to have
been built in Gloucester, Massachusetts, about the year
1713, by a Captain Andrew Robinson, and to have
received its name from the following trivial
circumstance: When the vessel went off the stocks into
the water, a bystander cried out,"O, how she scoons!"
Robinson replied, " A scooner let her be;" and, from
that time, vessels thus masted and rigged have gone by
this name. The word scoon is popularly used in some
parts of New England to denote the act of making stones
skip along the surface of water. The Scottish scon
means the same thing. Both words are probably allied to
the Icel. skunda, skynda, to make haste, hurry, AS.
scunian to avoid, shun, Prov. E. scun. In the New
England records, the word appears to have been
originally written scooner. Babson, in his "History of
Gloucester," gives the following extract from a letter
written in that place Sept. 25, 1721, by Dr. Moses
Prince, brother of the Rev. Thomas Prince, the annalist
of New England: "This gentleman (Captain Robinson) was
first contriver of schooners, and built the first of
that sort about eight years since."
[1913 Webster]Topsail \Top"sail`\, n. (Naut.)
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.
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Topsail schooner. (Naut.) See Schooner, and Illustration
in Appendix.
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Upper topsail
(gcide) | Upper \Up"per\, a.; comp. of Up.
Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place,
position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper
lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a
legislature.
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The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See {To
have the upper hand}, under Hand. --Jowett (Thucyd.).
Upper Bench (Eng. Hist.), the name of the highest court of
common law (formerly King's Bench) during the
Commonwealth.
Upper case, the top one of a pair of compositor's cases.
See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
Upper covert (Zool.), one of the coverts situated above the
bases of the tail quills.
Upper deck (Naut.), the topmost deck of any vessel; the
spar deck.
Upper leather, the leather for the vamps and quarters of
shoes.
Upper strake (Naut.), the strake next to the deck, usually
of hard wood, and heavier than the other strakes.
Upper ten thousand, or (abbreviated) Upper ten, the ten
thousand, more or less, who are highest in position or
wealth; the upper class; the aristocracy. [Colloq.]
Upper topsail (Naut.), the upper half of a double topsail.
Upper works (Naut.), all those parts of the hull of a
vessel that are properly above water.
Upper world.
(a) The atmosphere.
(b) Heaven.
(c) This world; the earth; -- in distinction from the
underworld.
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fore-and-aft topsail
(wn) | fore-and-aft topsail
n 1: a triangular fore-and-aft sail with its foot along the gaff
and its luff on the topmast [syn: gaff topsail, {fore-
and-aft topsail}] |
fore-topsail
(wn) | fore-topsail
n 1: the topsail on a foremast |
gaff topsail
(wn) | gaff topsail
n 1: a triangular fore-and-aft sail with its foot along the gaff
and its luff on the topmast [syn: gaff topsail, {fore-
and-aft topsail}] |
main-topsail
(wn) | main-topsail
n 1: a topsail set on the mainmast |
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