maintop
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of maintop
Example Sentences
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No, Warlock, but right up into the maintop crosstrees, where I could be as far as possible away from our own ship’s guns.
From Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Gordon Stables
The ship had all but passed them by before garbled shouts from its maintop finally sounded over the foggy waters.
From Caribbee by Thomas Hoover
As this increased and rose higher, Farragut went up step by step until he was close under the maintop.
From Admiral Farragut by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
Next day Rogers found them "in a very orderly pickle, with all their clothes drying, the ship and rigging covered with them from the deck to the maintop."
From Privateers and Privateering by E. P. Statham
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 William Henry Giles Kingston
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