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Definition of Maintop
1. n. The platform about the head of the mainmast in square-rigged vessels.
Definition of Maintop
1. Noun. (nautical) A platform at the top of a square-rigged vessel's mainmast; used for observation and for the attachment of rigging. ¹
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Definition of Maintop
1. a platform at the head of a mainmast [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maintop
Literary usage of Maintop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1828)
"Ho'm got free new cloths in he maintop-gallant-royal, Sir.' " ' Still true.
But has he signals abroad ?' " ' His vessel is all the hotter for the repairs. ..."
2. A Narrative of Excursions, Voyages, and Travels, Performed at Different by George Rapelje (1834)
"Yesterday the maintop-gallant yard broke. We had now been out three weeks, and
had proceeded near half way from Liverpool to New-York. ..."
3. The Old Sea Captain by Old Humphrey, Religious Tract Society (1799)
"... —The summer arbour with the Union Jack—Schoolboys— Heaving up the sheet
anchor—Baling out water from the hold —Taking in a reef-of the maintop-sail—Shot ..."
4. Minutes of the Proceedings at a Court-martial, Assembled for the Trial of by Anthony James Pye Molloy (1795)
"... Were there then two Reefs in the maintop-lail and three in the Tore and Mizen ?
— A. There were two in the Main, but the State of the others I did not ..."
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