"topsail" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtɑp.seɪl/ [US], /ˈtɑp.səl/ [US], /ˈtɒp.seɪl/ [UK], /ˈtɒp.səl/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-topsail.wav Forms: topsails [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English topsail, topsayl, topseyle, topsaill, equivalent to top + sail. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|topsail}} Middle English topsail, {{af|en|top|sail}} top + sail Head templates: {{en-noun}} topsail (plural topsails)
  1. (nautical) A sail or either of the two sails rigged just above the course sail and supported by the topmast on a square-rigged sailing ship. Categories (topical): Nautical Translations (sail above the course sail): ἀρτέμων (artémōn) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), gàbia [feminine] (Catalan), topsejl [neuter] (Danish), bovenzeil [neuter] (Dutch), märssypurje (Finnish), hunier [masculine] (French), Toppsegel [neuter] (German), מִפְרָשׂ עִלִּי (mifras ili) [masculine] (Hebrew), toppi (Ingrian), bairbíneach [masculine] (Irish), barréadach [masculine] (Irish), barrsheol [masculine] (Irish), seol bairr [masculine] (Irish), heune [feminine] (Norman), heuniéthe [feminine] (Norman), tâp-sèle [feminine] (Norman), toppseil [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), gavia [feminine] (Spanish), gabya (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-topsail-en-noun-MKnGt2l8 Topics: nautical, transport Disambiguation of 'sail above the course sail': 59 41
  2. (nautical) In a fore-and-aft-rigged sailing boat, the sail that is set above the gaff at the top part of the mast. Categories (topical): Nautical
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: club topsail, gaff-topsail, Gaff Topsail

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (f889f65 and 8fbd9e8). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.