round-top

See also: roundtop and round top

English

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Noun

round-top (plural round-tops)

(nautical) A platform at the top of a ship's mast.
- 1722, Daniel de Foe, Colonel Jack (Chapter 11)
  A man on the roundtop cried out, Au voile, a sail.

References

“round-top” in John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors, The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

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