topman
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topmen
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Named for the job was young, handsome, curly-headed Rexford Guy Tugwell, topman of the Brain Trust.
From Time Magazine Archive
Your position as a topman is a very exalted one.
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
"It would be difficult to deceive a topman in the cut and trim of sails among which he has passed months, nay years."
From The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper
He was as bold a topman as ever stepped.
From Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman by C. J. de Lacey
The captain reprimanded Cummin severely for his carelessness, degraded him from his station as topman, made him a "sweeper," and stopped his allowance of grog.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
But no sooner had we gained the Crepuscule than we heard word from one of the topmen of the true case—unutterable—astounding to believe.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Master Perth turned from his abashed inferior, ascended the main rigging, and with a few sharp orders, compelled the topmen to unsnarl the ropes.
From Down the Rhine Young America in Germany by Oliver Optic
With which response to Commander Nesbitt’s order, I sprang down the after-hatchway on to the main deck, proceeding thence below to where old “Joe” and his topmen were working.
From Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant by John B. Greene
All was bustle on the brig’s decks, while aloft the busy topmen were bending new sails, splicing the rigging, and completing their work, which had been hastily but effectually done.
From The Ruined Cities of Zululand by Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley
The shot rattled among the spars of the "Belvidera," but the nimble topmen quickly repaired all damages; and the British ship slowly but steadily forged ahead.
From The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot
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