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maintop

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main·top  (mntp)
n.
A platform at the head of the mainmast on a square-rigged vessel.
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As for Jo, she would have gone up and sat on the maintop jib, or whatever the high thing is called, made friends with the engineers, and tooted on the captain's speaking trumpet, she'd have been in such a state of rapture.
Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
In his indignation at what he termed their effeminacy, he would swear that he would never take them to sea again "without having Fly-market on the forecastle, Covent-garden on the poop, and a cool spring from Canada in the maintop.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
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