maintop

[ meyn-top ]

noun

, Nautical.

1. a platform at the head of the lower mainmast.

maintop

/ ˈmeɪnˌtɒp /

noun

1. a top or platform at the head of the mainmast

Word History and Origins

Origin of maintop¹

First recorded in 1475–85; main ¹ + top ¹

Example Sentences

Acuma climbed to the maintop and looked at the coast of Peru with a telescope, and the captain took bearings with his instruments.

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The officer of the maintop was a little midshipman, James Jarvis, who was only thirteen years old.

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It rested like a mirror all that day, and the sails hung empty and the banner at maintop but a moveless wisp of cloth.

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Farragut had taken his famous stand in the shrouds, just under the maintop, and hailed the Brooklyn as he came up in the Hartford.

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He even went into the maintop again, in order to get as early and as wide a survey of the horizon as he wished.

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