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Topmast. 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. Topmast A smaller mast fixed on the top of a lower mast; spec. the second section of a mast above the deck, which was formerly the uppermost mast, but is now surmounted by the topgallant mast.

1 1485.  Naval Acc. Hen. VII. (1896), 48. Toppe mastes … j, Toppe shrowdes … vj. Ibid. (1497) [see TOPGALLANT A. 1].

2 1556.  W. Towrson, in Hakluyt, Voy. (1599), II. II. 43. Perceiuing the Admirall to be farre a sterne of his company, because his maine top-mast was spent.

3 1610.  Shaks., Temp., I. i. 37. Downe with the top-Mast: yare, lower, lower, bring her to Try with Maine-course.

4 a. 1625.  Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. MS. 2301), s.v., The Top-mastes are ouer halfe soe long as the Mastes vnto which theie belong.

5 1764.  Veitch, in Phil. Trans., LIV. 287. In great ships the masts are composed of three parts,… the lowermost part is called by its proper name, the middlemost part is called the top-mast, and the uppermost part the top-gallant-mast.

6 1795.  Nelson, in Nicolas, Disp. (1845), II. 21. The Ça Ira lost her topmasts, which enabled the Agamemnon and Inconstant to close in with her.

7 1873.  C. Robinson, N. S. Wales, 98. Every ship in port, from whatever clime, is decorated with flags of all colours, from stem to stern, from top-mast to hull.

8   b.  attrib., as topmast-block, -head, etc.

9 1672.  Lond. Gaz., No. 690/1. Who carried the Union Flags on their Topmast-head, and each a White Flag in their Poupe.

10 1709.  Dampier, Voy., III. II. 37. This Island … may be seen from a Ship’s Topmast-head about ten Leagues.

11 1840.  R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, xi. The topmast-studding-sail boom … broke off at the boom-iron.

12 1897.  Daily News, 7 June, 2/3. Through the thinner veil overhead … the gilded topmast-blocks could be seen gleaming in sunshine.

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