round-top
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]round-top (plural round-tops)
- (nautical) A platform at the top of a ship's mast.
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, chapter 11, in Colonel Jack:
- A man on the roundtop cried out, Au voile, a sail.
References
[edit]- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “round-top”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.