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maintop

maintop noun: a platform at the top of a square-rigged vessel's mainmast; used for observation and for the attachment of rigging.

Noun

maintop (plural maintops)

  1. A platform at the top of a square-rigged vessel's mainmast; used for observation and for the attachment of rigging.
    • ‘Nip over,’ Canning told him in a low voice, ‘to the maintop - he don’t know you.’1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 92

Forms of maintop

pluralmaintops

Origin of maintop

From main + top.

Questions about maintop

What does maintop mean?
Maintop means a platform at the top of a square-rigged vessel's mainmast; used for observation and for the attachment of rigging.
What part of speech is maintop?
Maintop is a noun.
What is the plural of maintop?
The plural of maintop is maintops.

Words near maintop in the dictionary

  1. maintenaunce
  2. maintenaunces
  3. maintenence
  4. Maintenon
  5. Maintongoon
  6. maintop
  7. maintopman
  8. maintopmast
  9. maintopmasts
  10. maintopmen
  11. maintops

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