Definitions for fore-topsail

fore-topsail fore-top·sail

Spelling: [fohr-top-seyl, fawr-; Nautical fohr-top-suh l, f
IPA: /ˌfoʊrˈtɒpˌseɪl, ˌfɔr-; Nautical ˌfoʊrˈtɒp səl, ˌfɔr-/

Fore-Topsail is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 1616 anagrams from letters in fore-topsail (-aefilooprst).

Definitions for fore-topsail

noun

  1. a topsail set on a foremast on a ship.

Origin of fore-topsail

First recorded in 1575-85

Examples for fore-topsail

She was a screw-propeller, and rigged as a fore-topsail schooner.

A reef had been shaken out of the trysails, and the fore-topsail and jib were set.

Closely reef the fore-topsail,” he added; “man the fore-topsail braces.

We next tried the fore-topsail, close-reefed, and this stood.

The fore-topsail had been mended as well as the foresail, and was set anew.

On the 10th of January, it was impossible to work our fore-topsail.

Her fore-topsail could not be set while the mast was being fished.

The foresail and fore-topsail we managed to save, but all our light canvass went.

They loosed the fore-topsail and they set the foretopmast staysail.

It was the fore-topsail which had been blown from the bolt-ropes.

Word Value for fore-topsail
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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