maintop
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of maintop
Example Sentences
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He felt very much at home in the maintop, and even Captain Avery glanced up at him approvingly.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by Stoddard, W. O.
For reply, he made a swift motion towards the Sutherland's maintop shrouds, and almost instantly lanterns showed in them.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon
A breeze springing up soon after noon, the fog lifted, when away dead to leeward a ship was descried, her maintop just appearing above the horizon.
From Jack Buntline by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Finding her sound and whole, Perry backed his maintop sail, and flung out his signal for close action.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler
The town itself, closely built and dirty, is divided by quebradas or ravines into three parts, extending along the side of a hill, and designated by the sailors as foretop, maintop, and mizentop.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
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