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Definition of Maintops
1. maintop [n] - See also: maintop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maintops
Literary usage of Maintops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Admiral Sir P. B. V. Broke ...: A Memoir by John George Brighton, Philip Bowes Vere Broke (1866)
"When the Chesapeake was boarded most of the men in the fore and maintops fled to
... The Shannon's fore and maintops were protected by a "top cloth," which ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"We tumbled every hand on deck instanter, with a shout, And we gave her the
maintops'l, and stood by to go about. All day we tacked and tacked between the ..."
3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"We tumbled every hand on deck instanter, with a shout, And we gave her the
maintops'l, and stood by to go about. All day we tacked and tacked between the ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1825)
"Fore aud maintops there, cast loose the topsails ! Forecastle there, is the jib
ready ?—Hani off all! Well done, my lads, very wdl done indeed; come, ..."
5. A Naval History of the American Revolution by Gardner Weld Allen (1913)
"... but bore down and fired a Broadside into us, which we returned immediately
and continued engaging ^ an hour, then he back'd his maintops & dropt astern ..."
6. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"and arms flying in the smoke, they still manned their maintops, keeping up a fire
of musket balls. Don Francisco finding, as he supposed, ..."
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