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- English Word Top Definition A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means of a whip.
- English Word Top Definition A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
- English Word Top Definition The highest part of anything; the upper end, edge, or extremity; the upper side or surface; summit; apex; vertex; cover; lid; as, the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain; the top of the ground.
- English Word Top Definition The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
- English Word Top Definition The highest rank; the most honorable position; the utmost attainable place; as, to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school.
- English Word Top Definition The chief person; the most prominent one.
- English Word Top Definition The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.
- English Word Top Definition The head, or upper part, of a plant.
- English Word Top Definition A platform surrounding the head of the lower mast and projecting on all sudes. It serves to spead the topmast rigging, thus strengheningthe mast, and also furnishes a convenient standing place for the men aloft.
- English Word Top Definition A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
- English Word Top Definition Eve; verge; point.
- English Word Top Definition The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
- English Word Top Definition Top-boots.
- English Word Top Definition To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains.
- English Word Top Definition To predominate; as, topping passions.
- English Word Top Definition To excel; to rise above others.
- English Word Top Definition To cover on the top; to tip; to cap; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
- English Word Top Definition To rise above; to excel; to outgo; to surpass.
- English Word Top Definition To rise to the top of; to go over the top of.
- English Word Top Definition To take off the or upper part of; to crop.
- English Word Top Definition To perform eminently, or better than before.
- English Word Top Definition To raise one end of, as a yard, so that that end becomes higher than the other.
- English Word Top-armor Definition A top railing supported by stanchions and equipped with netting.
- English Word Top-block Definition A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, -- used in swaying and lowering the topmast.
- English Word Top-boots Definition High boots, having generally a band of some kind of light-colored leather around the upper part of the leg; riding boots.
- English Word Top-chain Definition A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away.
- English Word Top-cloth Definition A piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action to protect the topmen.
- English Word Top-drain Definition To drain the surface of, as land; as, to top-drain a field or farm.
- English Word Top-draining Definition The act or practice of drining the surface of land.
- English Word Top-dress Definition To apply a surface dressing of manureto,as land.