top timber

American  

noun

Nautical.

1. a timber forming the upper, straighter portion of a frame in a wooden hull.

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Etymology

Origin of top timber

First recorded in 1620–30

Example Sentences

Among its amenities are an Olympic-size swimming pool, the county’s sole regulation baseball field, basketball courts, picnic pavilions, a playground, a paved walking trail that circles the island, a kayak and canoe launch site, a concessions stand, a stage for live music performances and a large open-sided structure that houses competition in the Webster Springs Woodchopping Festival, which draws the world’s top timber sport competitors and more than 12,000 fans here every Memorial Day weekend.

From Washington Times

Returning without it, we found on our way an old top timber of some vessel; it had several spikes on it, which we afterwards found very serviceable.

From Project Gutenberg