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tops'l

tops'l is the alternative spelling of topsail.

Meaning of topsail

Noun

topsail (plural topsails)

  1. 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.
  2. In a fore-and-aft-rigged sailing boat, the sail that is set above the gaff at the top part of the mast.

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Forms of tops'l

pluraltops'ls

Questions about tops'l

What is tops'l the alternative spelling of?
Tops'l is the alternative spelling of topsail.

Words near tops'l in the dictionary

  1. tops one's boom
  2. tops oneself
  3. tops out
  4. tops the charts
  5. tops up
  6. tops'l
  7. tops'ls
  8. tops-and-bottoms
  9. topsail
  10. Topsail Beach
  11. topsails

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tops'l (page history and authors); topsail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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