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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

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. Mizzell
  2. Mizzells
  3. mizzen
  4. mizzen course
  5. mizzen courses
  6. mizzen top
  7. mizzen tops
  8. mizzen-mast
  9. mizzen-masts
  10. mizzen-top
  11. mizzen-top man

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