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maintop

[ meyn-top ]

noun

Nautical.
  1. a platform at the head of the lower mainmast.


maintop

/ ˈɪˌɒ /

noun

  1. a top or platform at the head of the mainmast
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of maintop1

First recorded in 1475–85; main 1 + top 1
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As for Jo, she would have gone up and sat on the maintop jib, or whatever the high thing is called, made friends with the engineers, and tooted on the captain’s speaking trumpet, she’d have been in such a state of rapture.

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Arguelles said the company’s goal had been to maintop operations but that “economic conditions and U.S. sanctions have made this impossible.”

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The only danger was that I might be picked off by musketeers in the maintop or crosstrees, the foremast itself protecting me from any shots from for'ard.

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Hail the maintop; that fellow must be asleep.'

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Finding her sound and whole, Perry backed his maintop sail, and flung out his signal for close action.

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