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Topman1. 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. Topman1 [f. TOP sb.1 + MAN sb.1]

1   † 1.  A ship (MAN sb.1 14) with a top on its mast; = top-ship (TOP sb.1 33). Obs.

2 1513.  N. West, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. I. I. 67. I found none but ix. or x. small topmen,… and other small balyngiers and crayers,… one little topman of the burdon of threescore tonne.

3 1577.  Harrison, England, II. xvii. (1877), I. 290. There are 135 ships that exceed 500 tun; topmen vnder 100, and aboue fortie, 656.

4   † 2.  A hangman: = TOPSMAN 2. slang. Obs.

5 1607.  W. N., Barley-Breake, D iv b. A nimble Ape his topman strait will be And hangs vp Streton.

6   3.  Naut. A seaman stationed in one of the tops, to attend to the upper sails, or in a fighting ship as a marksman.

7 1748.  Anson’s Voy., III. viii. 379. Her topmen … made prodigious havock with their small arms, killing or wounding every officer … on the quarter-deck.

8 1825.  H. B. Gascoigne, Nav. Fame, 74. The Topmen now the Backstays well attend, To lesser duties all attention lend.

9 1830.  Marryat, King’s Own, xvi. Topmen, aloft! loose top-gallant sails.

10 1898.  Newbolt, Isl. Race, 8. One morning the topmen reported below The old Agamemnon escaped from the foe.

11   4.  a. The upper man in a saw-pit: TOP-SAWYER a; cf. PITMAN 3. b. A miner or pitman working at the top of the shaft.

12   a.  1678.  Moxon, Mech. Exerc., v. 98. With the Pit-Saw they enter the one end of the Stuff, the Top-man at the Top, and the Pit-man under him. Ibid., vi. 113. Of the two Sawyers, the uppermost is called the Top-man.

13 1881.  Lumber World, March. The frame or sash saw is operated in the same manner by a top-man and a pit-man.

14   b.  1890.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Miner’s Right, iii. The bucket appeared slightly above the brace at the shaft, and was taken by the topman.

15 1912.  Scotsman, 5 April, 5/2. There was … no settlement of the banksmen’s or topmen’s question.

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