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Top-Armor
- - A top railing supported by stanchions and equipped with netting.
Top-Block
- - A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, -- used in swaying and lowering the topmast.
Top-Boots
- - High boots, having generally a band of some kind of light-colored leather around the upper part of the leg; riding boots.
Top-Chain
- - A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away.
Top-Cloth
- - A piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action to protect the topmen.
Top-Drain
- - To drain the surface of, as land; as, to top-drain a field or farm.
Top-Dress
- - To apply a surface dressing of manureto,as land.
Top-Grade
- adjective - surpassing in quality; "top-grade ore"
Top-Heavy
- adjective - unstable by being overloaded at the top
Top-Light
- - A lantern or light on the top of a vessel.