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mizen-top man

mizen-top man is the alternative form of mizzentopman.

Meaning of mizzentopman

Noun

mizzentopman (plural mizzentopmen)

  1. A sailor assigned to the mizzentop on a sailing ship.
    • Soon after, the foresail was reefed, and we mizen-top men were sent up to take another reef in the mizen topsail.1840, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1909-14, Chapter XXIV

Forms of mizen-top man

pluralmizen-top men

Questions about mizen-top man

What is mizen-top man the alternative form of?
Mizen-top man is the alternative form of mizzentopman.

Words near mizen-top man in the dictionary

  1. Mizells
  2. mizen
  3. mizen top
  4. mizen tops
  5. mizen-top
  6. mizen-top man
  7. mizen-top men
  8. mizen-tops
  9. mizenkei
  10. mizenmast
  11. mizenmasts

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