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fighting top
noun
- 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
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An officer in a fighting-top used a telegraph-dial, and a stoker in the depths his shovel, in a chink of light from the furnace.
The vessel was to carry four large barbettes and a huge umbrella-like fighting-top.
Our guns in the fighting-top were pouring out a continuous hail of fire in reply.
There seems little doubt that our fighting-top was now coming in for the attention of most of the enemy guns.
As the officer who had been in the fighting-top jumped clear into the sea, the vessel began to go down, now by the head.
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