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maintops

maintops is the plural of maintop.

Meaning of maintop

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

Questions about maintops

What is maintops the plural of?
Maintops is the plural of maintop.

Words near maintops in the dictionary

  1. maintop
  2. maintopman
  3. maintopmast
  4. maintopmasts
  5. maintopmen
  6. maintops
  7. maintopsail
  8. Mainville
  9. Mainvilles
  10. Mainwaring
  11. Mainwarings

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