mizzentopman
mizzentopman noun: a sailor assigned to the mizzentop on a sailing ship.
Noun
mizzentopman (plural mizzentopmen)
- 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
- […] since the mizzentopmen having not to handle such breadths of heavy canvas as the lower sails on the main-mast and fore-mast, a young man if of the right stuff not only seems best adapted to duty there, but in fact is generally selected for the captaincy of that top, and the company under him...1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.
Forms of mizzentopman
| plural | mizzentopmen |
|---|---|
| alternative form | mizen-top man |
| alternative form | mizzen-top man |
Origin of mizzentopman
From mizzentop + man.
Questions about mizzentopman
- What does mizzentopman mean?
- Mizzentopman means a sailor assigned to the mizzentop on a sailing ship.
- What part of speech is mizzentopman?
- Mizzentopman is a noun.
- What is the plural of mizzentopman?
- The plural of mizzentopman is mizzentopmen.
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