Meanings
plural gaffsails
- nauticalA topsail above the uppermost or only spanker.
1 more example
2007, August 26, One Piece, Eiichiro Oda, Episode 321, The King of Animals that Overlooks the Sea! The Dream Ship Magnificently Completed! Umi wo Nozomu Hyakujuu no Ou! Yume no Fune Doudou Kansei! (海を臨む百獣の王! 夢の船堂々完成!): [English captions, Nami, Iceburg, respectively] That big gaffsail seems to have a lot of mobility! It's called brigantine.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Dutch gaffelzeil
- gaffelzeiltopsail
Finnish kahvelipurje, haarukkapurje
- kahvelipurjetopsail
- haarukkapurjetopsail
French voile à corne
- voile à cornetopsail
German Gaffelsegel
- Gaffelsegeltopsail
Russian га́фельный па́рус
- га́фельный па́рус (gáfelʹnyj párus)topsail
Swedish gaffelsegel
- gaffelsegeltopsail
Cite this entry
gaffsail. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gaffsail
“gaffsail.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gaffsail. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gaffsail,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gaffsail.
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