maintop
/meyn-top/US // ˈmeɪnˌtɒp //UK // (ˈmeɪnˌtɒp) //
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n.名词 noun
- 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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