maintop
a platform at the head of the lower mainmast.
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How to use maintop in a sentence
Acuma climbed to the maintop and looked at the coast of Peru with a telescope, and the captain took bearings with his instruments.
Us and the Bottleman | Edith Ballinger PriceThe officer of the maintop was a little midshipman, James Jarvis, who was only thirteen years old.
Twelve Naval Captains | Molly Elliot SeawellIt rested like a mirror all that day, and the sails hung empty and the banner at maintop but a moveless wisp of cloth.
1492 | Mary JohnstonFarragut had taken his famous stand in the shrouds, just under the maintop, and hailed the Brooklyn as he came up in the Hartford.
Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century | Charles MorrisHe even went into the maintop again, in order to get as early and as wide a survey of the horizon as he wished.
The Wing-and-Wing | J. Fenimore Cooper
British Dictionary definitions for maintop
/ (ˈmeɪnˌtɒp) /
a top or platform at the head of the mainmast
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