fighting top
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
At the top of the mainmast is a fighting top from which project two large spears.
From A Short Account of King's College Chapel by Littlechild, Walter Poole
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
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