How To Use topmast In A Sentence
- The topmast in turn supported the topgallant mast, which could be lowered and replaced, if necessary, even at sea.
- The Macedonian's mizzenmast was gone, her main and foretopmasts carried away, her main yard cut in two, and her ensign had disappeared.
- The overlapping view makes it difficult to sort out the various spars, but it appears that the foremast has only lower and topmasts, while topgallants are carried on the main and mizen.
- The full-jib was also set, and, as it departed in shreds, the fore-topmast staysail was being hoisted. CHAPTER XXXVIII
- The month in which my seventeenth birthday arrived I signed on before the mast on the Sophie Sutherland, a three-topmast schooner bound on a seven-months 'seal-hunting cruise to the coast of Japan. That Dead Men Rise Up Never
- The topmast anticked high in the air for a space, then crashed down to deck, permitting the bowsprit to dip into the sea, go clear with the butt of it of the forecastle head, and drag alongside. CHAPTER XV
- I saw the mizzen topmast lurching across a faint radiance of cloud behind which was the moon. That Dead Men Rise Up Never
- It was a perfect replica of a Caribbean pirate vessel, right down to the Jolly Roger flying from the topmast.
- Sometimes additional pieces of wood were fastened to the topmasts, which carried topgallant sails.
- As various design concepts were presented, the topmast and ring-of-spikes motif remained intact.
