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mizzen-top

mizzen-top is the alternative form of mizzentop.

Meaning of mizzentop

Noun

mizzentop (plural mizzentops)

  1. A framework and platform at the top of the lower mizzenmast of a sailing ship
    • […] the Compte de Provence, the enemies leading ship, put before the wind, having cut away her mizen-mast on account of taking fire in the mizen top.1761, Richard Owen Cambridge, An Account of the War in India Between the English and the French on the Coast of Coromandel, from the Year 1750 to the Year 1761, Second edition, London: T. Jefferys...

Forms of mizzen-top

pluralmizzen-tops

Phrases with mizzen-top

Questions about mizzen-top

What is mizzen-top the alternative form of?
Mizzen-top is the alternative form of mizzentop.

Words near mizzen-top in the dictionary

  1. mizzen courses
  2. mizzen top
  3. mizzen tops
  4. mizzen-mast
  5. mizzen-masts
  6. mizzen-top
  7. mizzen-top man
  8. mizzen-top men
  9. mizzen-tops
  10. mizzenmast
  11. mizzenmasts

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