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maintop

/meyn-top/US // ˈmeɪnˌtɒp //UK // (ˈmeɪnˌtɒp) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Nautical.

    • : a platform at the head of the lower mainmast.

Examples

  • Acuma climbed to the maintop and looked at the coast of Peru with a telescope, and the captain took bearings with his instruments.

  • The officer of the maintop was a little midshipman, James Jarvis, who was only thirteen years old.

  • It rested like a mirror all that day, and the sails hung empty and the banner at maintop but a moveless wisp of cloth.

  • Farragut had taken his famous stand in the shrouds, just under the maintop, and hailed the Brooklyn as he came up in the Hartford.

  • He even went into the maintop again, in order to get as early and as wide a survey of the horizon as he wished.

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