Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gaff_topsail

1 sense of gaff topsail

Sense 1
gaff topsail, fore-and-aft topsail -- (a triangular fore-and-aft sail with its foot along the gaff and its luff on the topmast)
       => fore-and-aft sail -- (any sail not set on a yard and whose normal position is in a fore-and-aft direction)