tops'l

And it's haul and pass, every mother's son, on a ninety-foot tops'l yard

The Banks of Newfoundland (3) 1996

And then — "Three red lights in a row on the mizzen tops'l yard," whispered Bush.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

Tonnant can't see the signal through the mizzen tops'l.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

No, my man; but lower a whip at once for the sail burton, and you can lower the tops'l tye as well.

Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

` Let 'em take their payment out of the fore tops'l, and the main topgallant s'l shall be witness to the bargain! '

Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

All sails were brailed except mains'l and tops'l, which were reefed and set against each other to hold her steady in case of a blow.

The Cruise of the Dry Dock T. S. Stribling 1923

` Up with the jib, reef the tops'l halliards, helm hard alee, and man the guns! roared the captain, as a Portuguese pirate hove in sight, with a flag black as ink flying from her foremast.

Little Women 1921

I weighed a hundred an 'ninety-seven pounds in the buff an' my chest bulged like a goose-wing tops'l.

Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

Didn't we have a tops'l carried away -- clean -- in that squall off Swampscott?

Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod James A. Cooper 1917

"Starrrrrb'd yer Helllllllm!" or "Ease 'er!" or "Man the tops'l!" or whatever they do and say on Scandinavian boats.

Nights in London Thomas Burke 1915