topgallant mast

1. 1.

   a mast fixed to the head of a topmast on a square-rigged vessel

   Synonymstopgallant

   Broadertopmast

Questions about topgallant mast

What does topgallant mast mean?

topgallant mast means "a mast fixed to the head of a topmast on a square-rigged vessel".

What is another word for topgallant mast?

Close synonyms include topgallant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is topgallant mast a common word?

topgallant mast is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.