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fighting top

British  

noun

  1. one of the gun platforms on the lower masts of sailing men-of-war, used in attacking the crew of an enemy ship with swivel guns and muskets

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Today's Beys take their name from a Japanese fighting top known as a bei-goma, and they are a rare case of a fad catching fire twice.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2012

TODAY’S Beys take their name from a Japanese fighting top known as a bei-goma, and they are a rare case of a fad catching fire twice.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2012

Every Mexican remembers the red light which President Woodrow Wilson had flashed on April 21, 1914 from the fighting top of the U. S. S. Arkansas.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the shots from the enemy had struck the foremast, above the fighting top, and it was crashing down, carrying a portion of the ship's flag with it.

From At the Fall of Port Arthur Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy by Stratemeyer, Edward

It was gone to reappear on the fighting top itself—then lower.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 by Various

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