Usually means: Highest platform on a mast.
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  1. maintop: Merriam-Webster
  2. maintop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. maintop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  6. maintop: Wiktionary
  7. maintop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. maintop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. maintop: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Maintop, maintop: Dictionary.com
  11. Maintop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Maintop: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. maintop: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Maintop: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. maintop: FreeDictionary.org
  16. maintop: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (nautical) A platform at the top of a square-rigged vessel's mainmast; used for observation and for the attachment of rigging.

Similar:
maintopmast, maintopman, main-topmast, mainmast head, mizzentopmast, masthead, mast, main-mast, mainmast, mainstay, more...

Opposite:
keel, bottom, hull

Types:
crosstrees, truck, top, topmast, topgallant mast, more...

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Similar:
maintopmast, maintopman, main-topmast, mainmast head, mizzentopmast, masthead, mast, main-mast, mainmast, mainstay, more...

Opposite:
keel, bottom, hull

Types:
crosstrees, truck, top, topmast, topgallant mast, more...



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