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

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Example Sentences

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

We sat in front with the officers, and the sailors behind us in masses on the deck, on the aftermost turrets, on the bridge, and even in the fighting top of the aftermost mast.

From Letters to His Children by Roosevelt, Theodore