Gaff-Topsail is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 632 anagrams from letters in gaff-topsail (-aaffgilopst).
First recorded in 1785-95
Man fore-clew-garnets, flying jib down haul, topgallant sheets, and gaff-topsail gear.
Five minutes sufficed for this job, and we then reset our topgallant-sail and flying-jib, and shifted our gaff-topsail.
Nearly cried over them—he did; and he had a square mainsail coat, and a gaff-topsail hat too—all proper.
And raising me in his arms he laid me on the folds of the gaff-topsail, which lay upon the deck near the tiller.
In the meantime the crew had come aft to take in the mainsail and gaff-topsail.
I wanted to take in the gaff-topsail also, but Bob would not hear of such a thing.
First, the smallness of the yard to which the head of the gaff-topsail is laced; and secondly, the great size of the headsail.
I got hold of the gaff-topsail yard and run it under his arms, and threw a rope over him, and sung out 'Hold on, Greenleaf!
What a head to the gaff-topsail, as long as that of the mainsail itself!
She carries a fore-and-aft main-sail, gaff-topsail, stay-foresail, and jib.
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