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† Top-castle. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. † Top-castle Obs. [Cf. TOP sb.1 9 and CASTLE sb. 7.] An embattled platform at the head of a ship’s masts, from which missiles were discharged: later called also top (TOP sb.1 9).

1 1335.  Exch. Acc., K. R., 19/14 m. 6 (P.R.O.). In paracione de guerra et arraiamenta cuiusdam magni Navis vocat’ la Trinite, vt in Ofcastel, Topcastel et Forcastel…. In cordis emptis pro petris tractandis apud Topcastel. xviij d. [Rendered, in Nicolas, Hist. Royal Navy (1847), II. 170. The ‘Trinity,’ of two hundred tons, was prepared for war with an ‘ofcastle, topcastle, and forecastle’; the ‘ofcastle’ being the aftcastle, and the ‘topcastle’ the ‘top’ or stage at the top of the mast; and ropes were bought for pulling stones up to the topcastle.]

2 13[?].  Coer de L., 2539. Sterne strokes with harde stones Out off the top-castel on hygh.

3 a. 1400.  Siege of Troy, 695, in Archiv neu. Spr., LXXII. 27. Vche maste hade top castel And asayliþ þe cite harde and wel.

4 1411.  Exch. Acc. K. R., 44/17. La barge appelle la Marie de la Toure … ove lapparail … une mast, un trief ove iiij. bonetz, un topchastiell, un seilyerde.

5 c. 1450.  Chron. London (Kingsford, 1905), 145. Beryng the standard of Seynt Jorge in the topcastell lyke Englissh schippes.

6 1555.  Eden, Decades, 27. The foreshyppe and the sterne, the toppe castel, the maste [etc.].

7   b.  transf. and fig.

8 1548.  Udall, Erasm. Par. Luke xi. 110. To sytte euen in the high topcastell of true seruyng of God.

9 1556.  Chron. Gr. Friars (Camden), 84. There was a man made too tope-castelles above the crosse of the stepulle, and there stode with a flagge in hys honde and viij. flagges hangynge besyde.

10 1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, III. xxi. (Roxb.), 252/1. He beareth Vert, the top castle of a Loome, with its pullaces, issueing out of base, Or.

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