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mizzen-top man

mizzen-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 mizzen-top man

pluralmizzen-top men

Questions about mizzen-top man

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

Words near mizzen-top man in the dictionary

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

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