top-hamper
- a variation of tophamper.
Example Sentences
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They can't stand this blow with so much top-hamper.
From The Wreckers of Sable Island by Oxley, J. Macdonald (James Macdonald)
Ah, Charlie! your scheme, I am afraid, is all top-hamper, and no ballast; wont the enemy give chase?
From An Old Sailor's Yarns by Ames, N. (Nathaniel)
The royal masts had been got down early on the previous afternoon so as to reduce top-hamper to a minimum, but the pitching and rolling were frightful, yet she made but little water.
From O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas by Stables, Gordon
Too much top-hamper, don’t you know—capsize the ship.
From The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley by Mitford, Bertram
The hulls of Cabot, Columbus, and Cartier were broader in the beam, much bluffer in the bow, besides being full of top-hamper on the deck.
From All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways by Wood, William Charles Henry
