topgallant
Adjective
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Adjective
topgallant
- (nautical) Situated above the topmast and below the royal mast.
- the topgallant yards, braces, etc.
- Of the most superior quality; the best of its kind.
- L'Estrange
- The consciences of topgallant sparks.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 9
- Delight, — top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.
- L'Estrange
topgallant (plural topgallants)
- (nautical) The sail suspended from the topmost section of a mast.
- (nautical) The topmost section of a mast; topgallant mast.
- Anything elevated or splendid.
- French: perroquet
- German: Bramsegel
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